PilgrimHarperCollins, 28 août 2000 - 552 pages Ageless. Sexless. Deathless. Timeless. Pilgrim is a man who cannot die, an astounding character in a novel of the cataclysmic contest between creation and destruction. Pilgrim is Timothy Findley’s latest masterwork, a finalist for the Giller Prize, and a national bestseller that has smashed the author’s own impressive sales records. Recently published in the US, Pilgrim is gathering rave reviews, and will be released in the UK this spring. It is 1912 and Pilgrim has been admitted to the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich, Switzerland, having failed—once again—to commit suicide. Over the next two years, it is up to Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the mind, to help Pilgrim unlock his unconsciousness, etched as it is with myriad sufferings and hopes of history. Is Pilgrim mad, or is he condemned to live forever, witness to the terrible tragedy and beauty of the human condition? Both intimate and expansive in its scope, with an absorbing parade of characters—mythic, fictional and historical—Pilgrim is a fiercely original and powerful story from one of our most distinguished artists. |
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... silence goes unbroken . Even though there has been all along a distant soughing of wind , it neither rises nor falls . Nor does it alter its tone . It is simply there . A wind has blown through all my dreams of late , yet always far ...
... silence goes unbroken . Even though there has been all along a distant soughing of wind , it neither rises nor falls . Nor does it alter its tone . It is simply there . A wind has blown through all my dreams of late , yet always far ...
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... silence you seek in death , while standing in a living stream of consciousness . Speak — and be done with it . Pilgrim's reac- tion to this had been an enigmatic smile and the silent observa- tion that the living stream of consciousness ...
... silence you seek in death , while standing in a living stream of consciousness . Speak — and be done with it . Pilgrim's reac- tion to this had been an enigmatic smile and the silent observa- tion that the living stream of consciousness ...
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... silence had not yet been forthcoming , only babble - albeit , babble that was intelligent enough . The history of the Danes - the streets of London in alphabetical order - the life of Queen Alexandra - and an explanation of why the ...
... silence had not yet been forthcoming , only babble - albeit , babble that was intelligent enough . The history of the Danes - the streets of London in alphabetical order - the life of Queen Alexandra - and an explanation of why the ...
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