Gnostic Myth-Making...?

[Antonin Scriabin]

There is also *Zanoni *by Bulwer-Lytton, and on the topic of tarot, *Last
Call *by Tim Powers.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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