- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications (April 12 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486441989
- ISBN-13: 978-0486441986
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #13,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Calvinist mysticism, triple-distilled, is the dangerous juice that fuels this blazingly strange Scottish rocket-ship of a novel from 1920... brilliant... unique... -- The Glasgow Herald
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Considered by the Irish Times as "one of the most brilliant flights of pure fancy ever recorded," this amazing story explores the beauty and untamed nature of a faraway world, where wild creatures crowd the fantastic landscape and demented torturers dominate victims with their bizarre mental powers.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Like a strong narcotic,
By Krypter (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Voyage to Arcturus (Paperback)
A book that sends you to another world is a fantasy. A book that propels you like a cannonball into a surreal world that's like a combination of Dante's Divine Comedy, Burroughs' Naked Lunch and Vance's Planet of Adventure is something altogether different, maybe unnameable. A Voyage to Arcturus is quite simply a metaphysical voyage to an incredibly alien landscape that raises in its forms both the questions and the answers about the nature of reality, our perceptions, our senses (especially as regards to pleasure and pain) and role of God in all those layers of reality. Hints of Gnosticism, Calvinism, asceticism and hedonism waft across the pages of this tale like a fine perfume.Prepare to be amazed, horrified and bewildered by the sights you will see, the landscapes you will tread, and the parts of your mind that will open. A remarkable work only weakened somewhat by a rather superfluous beginning and some awkward phrasing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Psychedelic Masterpiece,
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This review is from: A Voyage to Arcturus (Hardcover)
David Lindsays book is more visionary than science fiction. The book reads like the description of a very powerful acid trip. Lindsays writing style leaves strong impressions of the landscapes he describes.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic of the Fantastic,
By Luke Brown (Hobart, TAS Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Voyage to Arcturus (Hardcover)
The book is a classic of fantastic literature. In Blakean tradition, with A Voyage to Arcturus, Lindsay has invented his own mythology to express his ideas, revealing a powerful artistic imagination. The story follows Maskull's journey through an alien landscape that reflects the tension between Apollonian and Dionysian forces within humanity. Lindsay's work is a true original. By integrating his own philosophical ideas with those of Nietzsche and Blake, in A Voyage to Arcturus, Lindsay provides a meditation on what he considers the driving forces of the human condition -- pleasure and pain.
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