Tag: Philip K. Dick

In the beginning was the Word: the fantasy of Philip K. Dick in "Ubik"

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Ubik is a meta novel. Everything in Ubik is verbalism, pure fiction. Ubik is the verb that "exists from the beginning", the verb that creates worlds. Ubik is pure appearance, but it is also the Principle. Platonic quotations emerge here and there in the novel: above all the Myth of the Cave and the curious application of the doctrine of universals: "things" are only masks placed on other masks, which fall as the process of regression or decay breaks down on them.

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Jacques Bergier and "Magic Realism": a new paradigm for the atomic age

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Recently translated into Italian by the types of Il Palindromo, "In praise of the Fantastic" by the French writer and journalist Jacques Bergier, best known for having written with Louis Pauwels "The morning of the wizards", provides an analysis of the work of some "magic writers" at the time unknown to the French-speaking public (including Tolkien, Machen and Stanislav Lem), aimed at defining a new paradigm for the XNUMXst century that can combine science and science fiction with the ontological category of the "sacred".

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