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"If there is anyone who would not understand Philip K. Dick's inclusion in the Library of America--those uniform editions of what the Library calls the 'best and most significant' American ...literature--it would be Dick himself. It isn't that he didn't think he deserved to be taken seriously. The honor simply would not fit with the way he saw the world: in his novels, the future is always a sorrier version of the present, a copy of a copy of a copy. But there he stands, alongside Faulkner, Melville, Wharton, Twain and all the other Mount Rushmore figures of American literature." (Newsweek) This profile of Dick, whose "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is "one of...four novels included in the Library of America volume," considers reasons his writing deserves to be canonized. His influence on "artists ranging from the novelist Jonathan Lethem...to the Wachowski brothers" is noted.
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Blows Against the Empire Gopnik, Adam
The New Yorker,
08/2007, Volume:
83, Issue:
24
Magazine Article
"Of all American writers, none have got the genre-hack-to-hidden-genius treatment quite so fully as Philip K. Dick, the California-raised and based science-fiction writer who, beginning in the ...nineteen-fifties, wrote thirty-six speed-fuelled novels, went crazy in the early seventies, and died in 1982, only fifty-three. His reputation has risen through the two parallel operations that genre writers get when they get big. First, he has become a prime inspiration for the movies, becoming for contemporary science-fiction and fantasy movies what Raymond Chandler was for film noir...But Dick has also become for our time what Edgar Allan Poe was for Gilded Age America: the doomed genius who supplies a style of horrors and frissons." (New Yorker) Dick's life and literary career are profiled. Key themes in his writing are highlighted.
"Dark angel of science fiction. Breakdancer upside down on reality's floor. Tortured artist strip-mined by Hollywood for blockbuster movie plots. So many images of Philip K. Dick. And even those ...images of self he carried in his own mind (alongside, it must be said, an occasional passenger or two, one of whom professed to speak an ancient Greek dialect) cohabited in uneasy alliance, discrete and out of synch, like a 3D movie watched without glasses." (Fantasy & Science Fiction) The 2004 biography, I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick, written by Emmanuel Carrere and translated from French by Timothy Bent, is reviewed. Highlights of Dick's life and literary career are related.
