The flight to Lucifer: a Gnostic fantasy Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. The flight to Lucifer: a Gnostic fantasy by Bloom, Harold. Publication date Publisher New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux CollectionUser Interaction Count: The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy is a fantasy novel by American critic Harold Bloom, inspired by his reading of David Lindsay's fantasy novel A Voyage to Arcturus (). The plot, which adapts Lindsay's characters and narrative and features themes drawn from Gnosticism, concerns Thomas Perscors, who is transported from Earth to the planet Lucifer by Seth Valentinus. Harold Bloom's story begins with an Aeon, Olam, descding to earth to bring two men, Valentinus, a reincarnation of a Gnostic prophet, and his young warrior escort Perscors, back to Lucifer on a quest to help Valentinus recover the call that motivated his previous life/5(6).
Harold Bloom's "The Flight to Lucifer": A Gnostic Fantasy. Published in , The Flight to Lucifer is, in its author Harold Bloom's own words, a novel "very much in the Arcturan shadow". Bloom refers several times to the writing of his one and only novel in the essay "Clinamen: Towards a Theory of Fantasy" (in Agon — see the secondary. The flight to Lucifer: a Gnostic fantasy Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. The flight to Lucifer: a Gnostic fantasy by Bloom, Harold. Publication date Publisher New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux Collection. The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy Paperback - May 1 by Harold Bloom (Author) › Visit Amazon's Harold Bloom page. Find all the books, read about the author and more. See search results for this author. Harold Bloom (Author) out of 5 stars 1 rating.
The Flight of Lucifer is basically a retelling of David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus, albeit much more directly and with the Gnosticism more explicit. Very little plot. Howard Bloom is the old curmudgeonly vanguard of the Western Canon and has written extensively on the Anxiety of Influence. THE FLIGHT TO LUCIFER. A Gnostic Fantasy. By Harold Bloom. he answer is: Yes, he gets away with it. The question was: could Harold Bloom--dean of the deep readers at inscrutable Yale University;. The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy is a fantasy novel by American critic Harold Bloom, inspired by his reading of David Lindsay's fantasy novel A Voyage to Arcturus (). The plot, which adapts Lindsay's characters and narrative and features themes drawn from Gnosticism, concerns Thomas.
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