Studies in Major Literary Authors: Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (Hardcover)

Lejla Kucukalic
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
9780415962421
0-415-96242-0

Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews,.

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that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture. Evaluating five novels that span Dick's career--from Martian Time Slip (1964) to Valis (1981)--Kucukalic explores the the intersections of identity, narrative, and technology in order to ask two central, but uncharted "Dickian" questions: What is reality? and What is human?