Timothy findlay (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 496 pages. Pilgrim, is the story of a man who cannot die. Ageless, sexless, deathles s and timeless, Pilgrim has inhabited endless lives and times. On April 15, 1912 - ironically, the date of the sinking of the Titanic - Pilgrim fails, once agai n, to commit suicide, his heart miraculously beginning again, five hours after h e is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to the Burgholzi Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, by his dear friend Lady Sybil Quartermaine, Pilgrim - at first, stubborn ly mute - begins a battle of psyche and soul with Carl Jung, self-professed myst ical scientist of the unconscious and slave to his own sexual appetites. Poring over Pilgrim's journals in his quest to penetrate his patient's armour of silenc e, Jung is both confounded and shaken by the extraordinary revelations of other existences. Pilgrim is a richly-layered story of a man's search for his o wn destiny - superbly crafted, breathtaking in scope and brilliantly imagined. …