David LINDSAY, Collection novels

David Lindsay (1876 - 1945) was a Scottish author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), the major "underground" novel of the 20th century. Like the gnostics he seems to have viewed the "real" world as an illusion, which must be rejected in order to perceive genuine "truth". It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. In The Haunted Woman, the two main characters discover a room which seems to exist only some of the time; while they are there together, they can see more clearly and express themselves honestly. In this book: A Voyage to Arcturus The Haunted Woman