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2 de mai. de 1979 · Bloom has been salting his literary criticism with dashes of kabbalistic and gnostic incunabula for years; here, in this first novel, he really lets his obsession run wild—and we can only hope that it's now out of his system. Valentinus and Perscors, two New Englanders, rendezvous on a barren island with Olam, a heretical angel of the Gnosis, who spirits them to Lucifer, the other world in ...
Published in 1979, The Flight to Lucifer is, in its author Harold Bloom's own words, a novel "very much in the Arcturan shadow". Bloom refers several times to the writing of his one and only novel in the essay "Clinamen: Towards a Theory of Fantasy" (in Agon — see the secondary bibliography page), which otherwise focuses on David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus as a means of understanding ...
"The Flight to Lucifer" is a fantasy, nothing more, nothing less; set on a distant world where time and space shift back and forth and where the conflicts of first-century religion are still being played out.
The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy Harold Bloom Snippet view - 1980. References to this book. Horizontes antropológicos, Volume 4, Issue 8 Snippet view - 1998.
Olam steers Valentinus and Perscors from Earth to Lucifer by navigating through the black holes of the universe--a nice touch of modernism. "The Flight to Lucifer" is basically the story of Perscors, who is a Prometheus, and an Odysseus and Primal Man, at whom the gods and the stars tend to laugh. Perscors seeks to find and claim his fate.
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You'd be better off perusing Elaine Pagels' "The Gnostic Gospels". But as an unusual adventure story, "The Flight to Lucifer" is interesting and absorbing. Bloom subtitled his book "A Gnostic Fantasy", and on that level, it's a good read.
