Gnostic Myth-Making...?

[Antonin Scriabin]

I'm actually reading *Endless Things *at the moment.  The *Aegypt *cycle is
quite good, but not as good as *Little, Big*. My personal favorite volume
was *Love & Sleep. *I too would be interested in more "gnostic" fiction, or
anything saturated with esoteric elements like this.  *Foucault's
Pendulum *comes
to mind, and though not fiction, Robert Graves' *The White Goddess *is
mentioned by Crowley in an interview as having a large influence on his
writing of the *Aegypt *cycle.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> On 23.05.2013 05:51, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>
>   So if Miss Hume is convincing in her argument that one of Pynchon's
> main stabilizing functions is his Myth-Making (and I think she is), and
> furthermore that it is a type of Gnostic Myth with a Twist, who are other
> Gnostic Myth-Makers if there are any?
>
>
> Philip K. Dick (*VALIS*, *The Divine Invasion*, *The Three Stigmata of
> Palmer Eldritch*), Nicholas Roeg (*The Man Who Fell to Earth*) and
> Hermann Hesse (*Demian*) come to my mind first. There are more.
>
> An excellent essay on the issue is "The Modern Relevance of Gnosticism" by
> Richard Smith (pp. 532 - 549 in James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi
> Library in English).
>
>
>  The most apparent is the awesome John Crowley, whose work I have been
> immersed in for the better part of 2013: *Little, Big* , *The Solitudes ,
> and Love & Sleep *namely... tho' it seems he has read *The Crying of Lot
> 49  *I mean *really *read it I don't think he goes much beyond it...
> obsessing as I do after anything called Gnostic once who are the other
> authors that may, however one attempts to stretch the term, be called
> Gnostic in their ability to spin new Mythos of the sort Pynchon weaves?
>
>  I haven't tried anything by Saramago...?
>
>
>
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