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Paperback book is in new, never been read condition.
Inside of book pages are crisp and clean. No creasing on edges, no stains,
no dog ears. Very minor shelf wear on outside of paperback cover. Publisher:
Harper Perennial. ISBN 0060929375. 2001 edition. 496 pages. Size: 8 x 5 x 1.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Timothy Findley's Pilgrim is the story of a man who can't
die even though he tries over and over to kill himself. Diagnosed as
schizophrenic, in 1912 he's placed in a Zurich clinic where Carl Gustav Jung
is hard as work trying to determine the perimeter of the collective
unconscious. For Jung, this man becomes an embodiment of the psyche's
mystery. Claiming to have no past history but to have simply arrived one day
at consciousness, Pilgrim lives in a limbo outside individuality and
subjectivity. He's everyone and no one. Is he a messenger? Or is he a basket
case?
In the early hours of April 17, 1912, two nights after the sinking of the
Titanic, a man named Pilgrim, author of a renowned book on Leonardo da
Vinci, steps into the garden of his London home and hangs himself.
Amazingly, five hours later his heart starts beating again, and he revives.
Findley (Headhunter; The Telling of Lies) is at his peak in this story of a
man who cannot die, but has grown so weary and despairing of life that he
longs only to escape it. Pilgrim, under the care of his wealthy friend Lady
Sybil Quartermaine, is removed to the Brgholzli Psychiatric Clinic in
Zurich, where Carl Jung, a principal doctor, is persuaded to take on his
case. Is Pilgrim mad, or is Jung, struggling to find himself as a theorist
and to sustain his uneasy marriage, the one who is deluded? Did Pilgrim
dream of the fate of the Titanic victims, and is he dreaming now of the
carnage of the coming world war? Did he, as his journals attest, know da
Vinci, know St. Teresa of Avila, help build the great cathedral at Chartres?
The story moves back and forth from Pilgrim's mind to Jung's, to Pilgrim's
journals as they're being read by Emma Jung who seems to understand
Pilgrim's dilemma far better than her husband does. Ambitious doesn't half
describe a novel that includes an eyewitness account of the death of Hector
in the Trojan War, appearances by Henry James and Oscar Wilde, and both the
woman who posed for the Mona Lisa and her reincarnated self as the man who's
just stolen it from the Louvre.
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