Valis

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400079391

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Valis by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. Valis is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. "The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation--this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years."--Ursula K. Le Guin, New Republic From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547867731

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The Valis Trilogy by Philip K. Dick Pdf

This e-book only edition brings together the three novels of Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy. VALIS What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world. The Divine Invasion God is not dead, he has merely been exiled to an extraterrestrial planet. And it is on this planet that God meets Herb Asher and convinces him to help retake Earth from the demonic Belial. As the middlie novel of Dick's VALIS trilogy, The Divine Invasion plays a pivotal role in answering the questions raised by the first novel, expanding that world while exploring just how much anyone can really know -- even God himself. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer The final book in the VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the author’s search for the identity and nature of God to a close. The novel follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to examine ancient scrolls bearing the words of Christ. But, more importantly, this leads him to examine the decisions he made during his life and how they may have contributed to the suicide of his mistress and son.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572413

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Valis by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Horselover Fat begins receiving what he considers to be divine revelations that imply extraterrestrial forces are interfering in the affairs of the Earth.

Author : Walter Herbert Gaumnitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Moral education
ISBN : MINN:31951D03923857O

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Developing Moral and Spiritual Valis in the Public Schools by Walter Herbert Gaumnitz Pdf

Author : Noël Valis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300257861

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Lorca After Life by Noël Valis Pdf

A reflection on Federico García Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world "A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one."--Andrés Zamora, Vanderbilt University There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. Noël Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously re-imagined since his death. Lorca's execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet's afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the people's poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets' society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poet's biography.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1596061693

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Ubik by Philip K. Dick Pdf

The screenplay version of the seminal sf novel, out of print for more than two decades.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547549255

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The Exegesis of Philip K Dick by Philip K. Dick Pdf

"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."-Jonathan Lethem Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.

Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190225384

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Tap Dancing America by Constance Valis Hill Pdf

The first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015024971445

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In Pursuit of Valis by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Author : Philip K. Dick,Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Library of America Philip K. D
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015075681406

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Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels (LOA #193) by Philip K. Dick,Jonathan Lethem Pdf

The third and final volume of an overview of the author's work features novels written during his later years, including "A Maze of Death" and "The Divine Invasion, " when the themes of religious revelation became predominant.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400095766

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The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick Pdf

n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Revew of Books). From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Ion Valis
Publisher : Pop Philosophy Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993931502

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The Magnificent Mistake by Ion Valis Pdf

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. I would add a third: mistakes. We all commit errors - often small ones, sometimes big ones, and all too frequently the same ones. What if you learned it was actually crucially important to learn from our mistakes? What if you discovered that the most successful people and organizations in the world did just that, and it is often one of the secrets to their success? What if someone gave you a simple tool - a six-step checklist captured in the acronym M.A.S.T.E.R. - which you could use to quickly draw the right lessons from both little miscues and massive failures? Finally, what if you were taught 12 key habits that your team or organization could implement to harness the power of failure? Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee or an executive, this book is for you. All winners in sports, business and life consistently and systematically learn from their mistakes. It's also the fastest, simplest, most powerful and yet least practiced way to improve you or your organization's performance. We know intuitively we should learn from our missteps. However, very few of us actually do, and that itself is a huge error. Discover what Michael Phelps, Warren Buffett, Amazon and Delta Force have in common in "The Magnificent Mistake."

Author : Constance Valis Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Dancers
ISBN : 9780815412151

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Brotherhood in Rhythm by Constance Valis Hill Pdf

Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 80s. They performed with Gene Kelly in The Pirate, with Cab Calloway in Stormy Weather, with Dorothy Dandridge (Harold's wife) in Sun Valley Serenade, and with a number of other stars on the stage and on the screen. Author Hill not only guides readers through the brothers' showstopping successes and the repressive times in which their dancing won them universal acclaim, she also offers extensive insight into the history and choreography of tap dancing, bringing readers up to speed on the art form in which the Nicholas Brothers excelled.

Author : Noël Valis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300152357

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Sacred Realism by Noël Valis Pdf

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Voyager
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0006482856

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Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick Pdf

As America gasps in a stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars. Will the agents of ominiscent Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the tactics of President Freemont extend the grip?