David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus

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A Voyage to Arcturus is one of the strangest and most influential works of early twentieth-century speculative fiction. David Lindsay's visionary novel follows Maskull on a journey to the distant world of Tormance, where landscape, body, desire, perception, and identity are remade at every turn. What begins as an interstellar voyage becomes a metaphysical ordeal, a dark pilgrimage through alien regions where each encounter tests the limits of human understanding and strips away ordinary assumptions about reality, morality, beauty, suffering, and the self.
Neither conventional science fiction nor ordinary fantasy, A Voyage to Arcturus stands apart as a philosophical romance of extraordinary force: violent, dreamlike, symbolic, and uncompromising. Its influence has reached writers of fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, and literary speculation, while its haunting atmosphere and relentless metaphysical pressure continue to attract readers drawn to visionary fiction, cosmic adventure, spiritual allegory, and strange journeys beyond the known world. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

Über den Autor

David Lindsay was a Scottish novelist best remembered for A Voyage to Arcturus, one of the most distinctive works of early twentieth-century speculative fiction. Born in London in 1876 to Scottish parents, Lindsay worked for many years in business before serving during the First World War and then turning seriously to fiction. His writing did not fit neatly within the commercial categories of his own time, combining adventure, fantasy, metaphysical inquiry, symbolism, and psychological intensity in ways that later readers would recognise as far ahead of their moment.Although A Voyage to Arcturus was not a commercial success when first published in 1920, it gradually became a cult classic and an important text for readers interested in science fantasy, philosophical fiction, visionary literature, and the stranger edges of modern fantasy. Lindsay's work has been admired for its fierce originality, its alien landscapes, its moral and spiritual unease, and its refusal to make the fantastic merely decorative. His fiction remains especially relevant to readers of classic science fiction, weird fiction, metaphysical fantasy, and early modern speculative literature.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe , Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781604591453
ISBN-10:	1604591455
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lindsay, David
Hersteller:	Positronic Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	David Lindsay
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.11.2007
Gewicht:	0,304 kg