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One of my favorite books on Philip K. Dick is "I Am Alive and You Are Dead" by Emmanuel Carrère, a 'biography' written as a novel. A really great read.
by cmsefton 10y ago
One of my favorite books on Philip K. Dick is "I Am Alive and You Are Dead" by Emmanuel Carrère, a 'biography' written as a novel. A really great read.
- Finnucane 10y agoHowever, definitely, 'biography' in quotes, because not biography in actual fact. The English-language translator was a work colleague of mine, and I lent him a lot of PKD material out of my own collection. I ended up getting the odd job of looking up the original English for the translations of excerpts from the French editions of Dick's work (a very PKD task, like The Game from Galactic Pot Healer) quoted in the book. Carrere was clearly cribbing heavily from Sutin, when he was wasn't just making it up.