Hyperion - Nietzsche Circle

worlds that are inexplicable in and through the behavioralist thought systems
by which we typically account for our realities, is that against which readers
habituated to mimetic realism often instinctively rebel when first encountering
his fiction, as my experience with my students demonstrated. But readers
who are willing to engage the text’s alternative realism on its symbolic and
archetypal terms eventually come to understand that Purdy’s multipleramifying
allegorized world, which refuses the consolations of the conventional
in affirming the unfathomable mysteries of being, is paradoxically more true
to life and more respecting of the real than the fictive mimicries of actuality
we are more accustomed to encountering and consuming. For these willing
initiates, Purdy’s unconscious allegories––so frustrating to the conventional
consumer––serve as fictive revelations, prompting them to discover the
affirming power and purpose of negation for their own lives and worlds.
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