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Passion but no progress for this pilgrim
2000
Overview
Pilgrim By Timothy Findley (Faber, #10.99) At the centre of Timothy Findley's novel Pilgrim is another book, this one a journal. It belongs to the title character, Pilgrim, a morose art historian who's either cursed with the inability to die or mad enough to think he is. After his latest in a series of unsuccessful suicide attempts, all this in 1912, Pilgrim winds up in a Zurich psychiatric hospital under the care of Carl Jung. Jung reads his journal. This is Findley at his best. Jung's detective work takes us through abstruse speculations and fantastic conceptual vistas, linking together remote landscapes and hermetic lore until it culminates in Jung's theory of the collective unconscious: \"All time - all space - is mine. The collective memory of the whole human race is beside me, sitting in this cave - my brain.\" Along the way Jung's character is laid bare as he ceases trying to cure Pilgrim and begins to learn from him. By the end Jung, too, dreams beyond his years. The affinity with Jung's theory of a collective unconsciousness seems striking. If Findley had, in creating Pilgrim's journal, demonstrated this autonomy of fiction, then the source of Jung's astonishment would not be the journal's vividness but its otherness, its utter irreducibility to the language Jung, [Emma, Jung] and Pilgrim already know. This astonishment is one the reader could share.
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Gannett Media Corp
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