Kenogaia (A Gnostic Tale)

The "genre" of the modern Gnostic novel encompasses an especially eclectic range of works. With this book-a fantasy by turns dark, absurd, comic, frantic, and lyrical-David Bentley Hart joins a company that includes figures as diverse as Georges Bernanos, Anatole France, David Lindsay, Philip K. Dick, Patrick White, Umberto Eco, William Gaddis, Harold Bloom, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, John Crowley, and Philip Pullman. In Kenogaia, a clockwork universe, an oppressive global society of ever-present surveillance, and the coming of age of its protagonist, Michael Ambrosius, are all disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious child from beyond the stars. Modeled on the Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl, Hart's tale is an imaginative exploration of the relation between good and evil, the difference between reality and illusion, the struggle to live life in truth, and the nature of spiritual existence. In these pages, Hart emerges as a master of mythopoesis even while spinning out a rollicking full-on adventure about friendship, loyalty, and the rescue of true goodness from a universe darkened by delusion.

Author: David Bentley Hart
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 12/01/2021
Pages: 434
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d
ISBN13: 9781621387954
ISBN10: 162138795X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | General
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

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