I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (680 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805054642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dick is remarkable--a depth charge, a CAT scan, and an exorcism. “Strange, fascinating man, and this a strange, fascinating book.” The San Diego Union Tribune“Emmanuel Carrère's I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Informed, affectionate, sardonic, he is also crystal clear.” John Leonard, Harper's“Consistently fascinating and brilliantly written Carrère combines fact and fiction to form a new sort of genre, blending literary criticism and cultural history with a novelist's earnest speculation.” Los Angeles Times Book Review“The story of a remarkable li
Fascinating Book, Great Read Kurt I don't know much about Philip K. Dick. I'm not a fan. But surfing the web, I came across some articles about him that intrigued me enough to want to learn more. I found myself spending about an hour on Amazon's Search Inside the Book, reading through as much of this book as I could (i.e., the first 3 or 4 pages of each chapter). Well, that wasn't enough to quench my thirst. So I bought it, and it was a book that I swallowed in one gulp -- I co. "FUZZY BIO OF PKD" according to Worldreels. Carrere's bio of Dick didn't quite come up to snuff. Thankfully he acknowledged Sutin's DIVINE INVASIONS, published a couple years before his own. Sutin was crisp, with accurate, detailed quotes while Carrere dove off into the fuzzy depths. Sutin describes Dick's women and friends while Carrere only mentions them in passing. IAA&YAD was written on the fuzzy premise that Dick "abolished the difference between life and literature." How amusing it. A fascinating book about a fascinating writer Elisabeth Carey This is in no sense a scholarly work-no footnotes, no bibliography, not even a "further reading" list. Emmaneul Carrère is an unabashed fan of Philip K. Dick who, having read everything there was to read, still wanted to know more about how Dick's mind worked. He pursued this quest through much of Dick's unpublished material and apparently interviews with those who knew him. (I say "apparently" because the lack of footnotes, while adding
. Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a New York Times Notable Book), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life As A Russian Novel, Class Trip and The Mustache. Carrère lives in Paris
From the master chronicler of psychological extremes, an unforgettable portrait of the “Shakespeare of science fiction” whose work has influenced millionsFor his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the “most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century” (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. He vividly conjures the spirit of this restless observer of American postwar malaise whose more than fifty novels subverted the materials of science fiction—parallel universes, intricate time loops, collective delusions—to create classic works of contemporary anxiety.As disturbing and engrossing as a book by its subject,