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Chargement... Sphinxpar David Lindsay
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On the surface, Sphinx tells of the arrival into a polite and fashionable 1920's rural community of one Nicholas Cabot, a young man who has recently come into money. The deeper themes of the book include levels of consciousness, the nature of choosing, and the boundary between life and death - explored chiefly through the device of Cabot's esoteric chemical experiments. Like all of Lindsay's books, Sphinx gives up its secrets a little at a time, and rewards frequent re-reading. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Sphinx is beautiful.
Take note of the passage describing the piece of music 'Sphinx' which lays out the structure and moods of the book telling you to look out for the question which all travellers must answer or die.
Colin Wilson's introduction is worth reading but there is a quite serious flaw: In the chapter Evelyn's Vigil two pages are repeated and two pages are missing. You can almost fill in the gap from what is around it but not quite and it niggled until I went to the National Library of Scotland (where incidentally they have Lindsay's manuscripts) and saw the 1923 John Long edition.
The full text is now available in the Resonance bookworks edition. (