Gnostic Myth-Making...?

[Ian Livingston]

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is saturated with gnosticism and tarot
imagery.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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