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Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death / VALIS / The Divine Invasion / The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Library of America No. 193)
Philip K Dick VALIS and Later Novels A Maze of Death / VALIS / The Divine Invasion / The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Library of America No. 193 Author:Philp K. Dick In 2007, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of America?s history. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s & 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Now comes a third and final volume gathering the best novels of Dick?s final years, when religious revelation, alwa... more »ys important in his work, became a dominant and irresistible theme.
In A Maze of Death (1970), a darkly speculative mystery that foreshadows Dick?s final novels, colonists on the planet Delmak-O try to determine the nature of the God?or ?Mentufacturer??who plots their destiny. The late masterpiece VALIS (1981) is a novelistic reworking of ?the events of 2-3-74,? when Dick?s life was transformed by what he believed was a mystical revelation. It is a harrowing self-portrait of a man torn between conflicting interpretations of what might be gnostic illumination or psychotic breakdown. The Divine Invasion (1981), a sequel to VALIS, is a powerful exploration of gnostic insight and its human consequences. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), Dick?s last novel, is by turns theological thriller, roman à clef, and disenchanted portrait of late 1970s California life, based loosely on the controversial career of Bishop James Pike?a close friend and kindred spirit.« less
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