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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Copertina flessibile – 10 febbraio 2011
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Episcopal bishop Timothy Archer is haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress, and must cope with the implications of the discovery of a religious artefact. These events drive him into a quest for the identity of Christ.
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is Philip K. Dick's last completed novel and a learned, moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief.
- Lunghezza stampa256 pagine
- LinguaInglese
- EditoreGollancz
- Data di pubblicazione10 febbraio 2011
- Dimensioni20 x 2 x 13.2 cm
- ISBN-100575099011
- ISBN-13978-0575099012
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- Editore : Gollancz (10 febbraio 2011)
- Lingua : Inglese
- Copertina flessibile : 256 pagine
- ISBN-10 : 0575099011
- ISBN-13 : 978-0575099012
- Peso articolo : 239 g
- Dimensioni : 20 x 2 x 13.2 cm
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This volume of the three, despite the marking on the back, is the work that is perhaps least well described as science fiction. It's events take place in the nineteen seventies at around the time of the death of John Lennon which is mentioned several times in the text. Unusually for Dick the story is told in first person and by a woman who is the daughter-in-law of an episcopalian (British readers read as Anglican) bishop of California, Timothy Archer. The events are probably more day to day for most readers than in PKD's science fiction, centring around the way the bishop's faith is challenged by the discovery of historical texts and the suicide of his son and mistress.
Yet for all the events being more quotidian there is also Dick's familiar interest in philosophical questions about the nature of reality and how we and beliefs relate to this. There are references to Jung, Heidegger, Plato as well as gnostic and classical texts listed at the back of the book as events unfurl to a mystery at the end which the author leaves us to ponder upon. The characters are believable, as most are in Dicks novels, and well drawn. The philosophy is well explained without overpowering the story.
In the end however, though I find this work well written and enjoyable, it is not my absolute favourite of his works. For that I would turn to books like The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) , or Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Gollancz) or A Scanner Darkly (S.F. MASTERWORKS) . There are others also. Dick, as has often been noticed, was an uneven writer. Though this book is definitely not one those I rate as poor, and is worth reading, I would still read those other masterpieces before this one, including the other ones in the Valis trilogy. Hence only the three stars.

A bit of research will show that the traditional disclaimer that "all characters within are ficticious and and resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental" is not applicable here, and at least the lead character is based very strongly on an evangelist Dick knew very well in real life. Timothy Archer is a fascinating character to view from the outside as we see him swing desperately from one theory to another to rationalize both the discovery of historical artefacts that appear to invalidate the New Testament and the unfortunate tendencies of his loved ones to commit suicide.
Narrator Angel Archer was not a particularly likeable character initially and seems curiously unemotional about certain events that happen to her, but becomes more identifiable as the book progresses and we see the full extent of the quite literal madness that she's been surrounded by.
There is quite a bit of dry ponderance on biblical and literary influences that make this not the easiest of reads in places, and I was definitely out of my depth with some of the quotations and references which might be more satisfying to others more scholarly than I, but Dick nicely pulls a rabbit of the hat at the end of the novel that, like Timothy Archer himself, made me re-appraise or at least question what I thought the book had actually been about. Ultimately not the greatest thing Dick ever wrote, but a fitting epitaph nonetheless.

Loved the book and definitely look out fir the first two.
