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Pilgrim. by Timothy Findley. 1. One of the central questions of Pilgrim is the main character's sanity. Does your opinion change throughout the course of the novel? How does Findley make the reader constantly reevaluate that assessment? By the end do you . Tim Findley's novel is a rich tapestry of historical fact and literary grace. Through the story of the time traveller Pilgrim, the reader spends intimate moments with some of history's greatest minds, and learns about the failure of genius to guide the human spirit/5(79). Free download or read online Pilgrim pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Timothy Findley. The book was published in multiple languages including French, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, cultural story are,/5.

Pilgrim is a novel by Timothy Findley, first published by HarperFlamingo in Canada in The first US edition was published by HarperCollins in The novel is typical of Findley's interest in Jungian psychology; in fact, Carl Jung himself is a major character. With the hallucinatory clarity and conviction of a particularly vivid dream, Timothy Findley's Pilgrim sets some of human history's greatest names in new perspectives. Following the title character's road to a recovery of sorts after yet another failed suicide attempt, this novel well bears such weighty matters as life and death, loss of faith and loss of love, reconciliation to destiny and. by Timothy Findley Chapter One Inside the front doors of the Burgholzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, a nurse named Dora Henkel and an orderly whose name was Kessler were waiting to greet a new patient and his companion.

Tim Findley's novel is a rich tapestry of historical fact and literary grace. Through the story of the time traveller Pilgrim, the reader spends intimate moments with some of history's greatest minds, and learns about the failure of genius to guide the human spirit. Strange and ambitious and engaging are the adjectives that come most readily to mind after reading Timothy Findley’s new novel, Pilgrim. The eponymous hero is encumbered with a mythic, folkloric liability. Pilgrim can’t die, no matter how hard or how often or how inventively he tries. This failing makes him edgy. Pilgrim. Timothy Findley. In memory of Michael Tippett Not only a child of our time, but of all time. And for Meirion Bowen who made the journey with him. Here is no final grieving, but an abiding hope. Michael Tippett A Child of Our Time,