- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (9 Mar 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330280945
- ISBN-13: 978-0330280945
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 951,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Hoban excels in the clash of the physical and metaphysical”
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'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian 'A strange and beautiful work, whose mysteries are worth contemplation. Pilgermann is that rare thing - a novel that can be read with profit more than once' Evening Standard
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was first turned on to Russell Hoban by Riddley Walker, which was a set text for a university course I took called "Philosophy and the novel". It was an incredible read, and instantly became my favourite book. And then I read Pilgermann, and Riddley Walker was no longer my favourite book!
Pilgermann is a surrealist road trip that fuses some wildly disparate themes into a dark free-form narrative, mixing religion, philosophy, science, history and, umm, maths like a mad man's alternative school curriculum. The language and imagery are endlessly creative, and the characters both mythic and ridiculous. I've never read anything quite like the book, and can happily read it over and over again without any diminishment of the thrill.
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Mystical, fabulous, funny, profound, profane... A "fantastic" story that will eventually take you to the heart of Antioch and the crusades of the middle ages (a great reminder, incidentally of the once tolerant treatment of the Jews by enlightened Muslims, in contrast to the barbaric death-dealing Christians who are besieging outside the gate (soon to be inside, after treachery...)).
Densely poetical and mystical but following a rollicking almost cartoon-like narrative that takes you to the point of facing death, and beyond. The re-appearing character of Death - Bruder Pfortner - is worth the price of admission alone.
A book I've read many times, covering the 'moment under the moment' and the journey out of any comfort zone into a long, challenging, pilgrimage to one of many possible "Jerusalems". Great stuff, but not necessily for the faint hearted. I find many of his other books slightly light-weight and throw away. This seems like the real dark deal. One of the best books I've read.
"The terms of the covenant are simple. Everything is expected of me, for ever."
Densely poetical and mystical but following a rollicking almost cartoon-like narrative that takes you to the point of facing death, and beyond. The re-appearing character of Death - Bruder Pfortner - is worth the price of admission alone.
A book I've read many times, covering the 'moment under the moment' and the journey out of any comfort zone into a long, challenging, pilgrimage to one of many possible "Jerusalems". Great stuff, but not necessily for the faint hearted. I find many of his other books slightly light-weight and throw away. This seems like the real dark deal. One of the best books I've read.
"The terms of the covenant are simple. Everything is expected of me, for ever."
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I normally like Hoban's work a great deal- "Riddley Walker", "The Medusa Frequency", "The Mouse and his Child" - with his characteristic mix of reality and fantasy. I'm afraid, however, that this one lost me entirely. Pilgermann is a mediaeval Jew who is castrated by a Christian mob but inexplicably saved from death by the mob's leader, and then embarks on some kind of quest ... but then the story gets into a tangle of Judaeo-Christian-Muslim mysticism that I couldn't fathom. It is beautifully written, but (at least to me) fairly impenetrable.
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