Journeys in Dream and Imagination

By Artur Lundkvist

Book Overview

Retells the author's dream experiences while he was semi-conscious following a two-month-long coma."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941423670
• ISBN13: 9780941423670
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

"but maybe one has to be dead in order to journey like that"

On one hand it blows my mind that fantastic pieces of work such as this can go by barely noticed and on the other its not surprising in the least considering the state of modern man. This simple record of a poets near death experience is nothing short of a masterpiece. It is a very sentimental and human work all and all. The poetic introduction by carlos fuentes and the words of love from his wife in the begining only add to the warm hearted feeling this book gives, and this love is strung throughout the pages of this journey out of wonderous darkness. Lundkvist conveys these experiences perfectly. The book moves as if asleep, sublime and fluid. Some parts utterly hilarious and others nearly made me cry. An amazing amazing read.

Like reading Salvador Dahli's diary !

This book gave me some fantasticly bizarre dreams , In 1981 , while delivering a lecture on Anthony Burgess , Lundkvist collapsed with a massive heart attack . Two months later he awoke in a heart-lung machine and was in a state of semiconsciouaness . At times he would be awake and lucid ; at other's he lay asleep dreaming very vivid , very weird dreams ; as you would expect dreams to be by a semiconscious swedish poet . Freaky dreams like being on another planet where immigrants milked cows that gave blue milk or about operations that changed white people into black people. A great book with a rare originality, a mix of Surrealism , fantacy, and poetic sci-fi.