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Cargando... Pilgrim (1999)por Timothy Findley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really liked this book, although it was a bit of a slow start. By the time I was in the last quarter or so I found myself slowing down and trying to make it last a bit longer. The humanization of C.G. Jung was particularly interesting and I think I might have a look for a biography of him to learn more about his life. Un patient suicidaire arrive à la clinique Burghölzli de Zurich. Carl Gustav Jung, qui se prend d'intérêt pour son cas, découvre peu à peu que son désespoir de vivre provient de son incapacité à mourir. Un roman baroque qui entremêle avec bonheur Léonard de Vinci, Oscar Wilde et Sainte Thérèse d'Avila, qui fait se répondre l'histoire de l'art et celle de la psychanalyse et passe allègrement du roman historique à la fresque fantastique. Une métaphore fascinante de l'inconscient collectif et de l'immortalité de l'art.
"Der Gesandte" ist ein von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite spannendes Buch. Es ist nie vorherzusehen, was als nächstes passiert. Der Leser geht auf eine Reise voller Geheimnisse und Überraschungen, die ihn mit Psychologie, Philosophie und Geschichte wunderbar unterhält, wenn er genug Einbildungskraft besitzt, sich auf diese fantastische Reise einzulassen. Nebenbei kann man wegen der großen Nähe zur realen Person Carl Jung auch noch etwas über diesen Psychoanalytiker erfahren. Pertenece a las series editorialesColección Folio (3679)
Pilgrim, is the story of a man who cannot die. Ageless, sexless, deathless and timeless, Pilgrim has inhabited endless lives and times. On April 15, 1912 - ironically, the date of the sinking of the Titanic - Pilgrim fails, once again, to commit suicide, his heart miraculously beginning again, five hours after he is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to the Burgholzi Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, by his dear friend Lady Sybil Quartermaine, Pilgrim - at first, stubbornly mute - begins a battle of psyche and soul with Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious and slave to his own sexual appetites. Poring over Pilgrim's journals in his quest to penetrate his patient's armour of silence, Jung is both confounded and shaken by the extraordinary revelations of other existences. Pilgrim is a richly-layered story of a man's search for his own destiny - superbly crafted, breathtaking in scope and brilliantly imagined. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The writing is sumptuous and full... but also intensely readable. Findley is tightly controlling the words on the page to easily allow you to sink into a flow of words, ideas, and images, always powerful but never overwhelming.
One review says that Findley, as a former actor, has a sense of the theatrical and I think that's what's so delicious about his prose here. So many small gestures are recorded with an actor's eye to what they can express, even if it is a little arch or melodramatic. It may not be to everyone's taste, but it's very intentionally and masterfully done.
Taking Jung and allowing him to be mistaken, to stumble, to be human in all of the ways that matter, actually enhances some of the Jungian thought inside the book, because we witness it come from struggle rather than some burst of inspiration.
Some of the critiques of the novel have said it meanders too far, or that it doesn't resolve it's plot threads, and again, this feels very intentionally and masterfully done. What I can see in each of these reviews is the yearning for resolution and clear meaning that we hope for in most of the stories we consume... but Findley is intending to make us face a lack of certainty, a lack of safe conclusion.
There is a thread of hope at the end, though. There is a way through everything that the novel offers, but it does require work. Again, as a theatrical writer, Findley is asking the audience to be a part of the ending, through it's attempt to interpret. ( )