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SPHINX IBD

DAVID LINDSAY
MURRAY EWING
02 / 2019
9781999626914
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Sinopsis

Nicholas Cabot, 25 years old and newly endowed with his uncle&rsquo,s fortune, takes lodgings at the house of retired tragedian Leslie Sturt, intending to devote his time to perfecting an invention for recording dreams.At the Sturt household, Nicholas hears &ldquo,Sphinx&rdquo,, a short piece of piano music by local composer Lore Jensen. Nicholas sees the Sphinx as being the symbol of &ldquo,The dreams we dream during deep sleep and remember nothing of afterwards&hellip,&rdquo,, while Evelyn, the middle of the three Sturt daughters, says that the Sphinx is asking, &ldquo,&lsquo,Why are you living in the world?&rsquo, As none of us can answer it, we all have to die.&rdquo,Soon after, Nicholas makes his first successful dream-recording, and finds it predicting a looming tragedy for the now creatively-bankrupt Lore Jensen. Meanwhile, he encounters a Sphinx of his own in the shape of Mrs Hantish, a young widow of whom Sturt says, &ldquo,I do not think it is to malign her to place her in the fatal category&hellip,&rdquo,Originally published in 1923, this is the third novel from David Lindsay, author of what Colin Wilson has called &ldquo,the greatest imaginative work of the twentieth century&rdquo,, C S Lewis has described as &ldquo,that shattering, intolerable, and irresistible work&rdquo,, and Alan Moore has called &ldquo,less a novel than it is private kabbalah&rdquo,, A Voyage to Arcturus. Like the &ldquo,spirit-usher&rdquo, Backhouse from that novel, Nicholas Cabot seeks to &ldquo,dream with open eyes&rdquo,. Sphinx is perhaps David Lindsay&rsquo,s most autobiographical novel, dealing as it does with the difficulties of pursuing a creative vision in the socially constricted inter-war years of the early 20th Century. It is also, thanks to its depiction of a grand masque and fancy dress ball at a large country house, his most identifiable as being written in the Roaring Twenties.

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