Word: sinclairism
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...Andrew Sinclair. A facile British historian mounts a time machine and takes a wild ride through history in this formidable fable about an amnesiac who makes a pilgrimage from Edinburgh to London in quest of himself...
...Andrew Sinclair. 486 pages. Macmillan...
...weirdest novel since John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy, British historian and playwright Andrew Sinclair mounts a time machine and takes a wild ride through history...
Past Is Present. What is anyone to make of all this? It is way out, and redeemed from boredom, if not confusion, by Sinclair's great verbal felicity. He can, in the manner of James Joyce in his celebrated parody of all English prose since the Venerable Bede, catch the tone of class and time. One hilarious example is a meeting between Lady Chatterley and a real, rather than Law-rentian, gamekeeper who can't abide them words she 'ad picked oop from that Mellors, the previous incumbent. "Look at 'er," the keeper says bitterly, "Lady...
...Sinclair, who took five years in the writing of Gog (apart from a biography of President Harding and a historical study of Prohibition), has not quite made his purpose clear. Speculation suggests that in Gog and Magog he is trying to make explicit the evil and good in man, a Manichaean notion that influenced Robert Louis Stevenson in writing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A more subtle Jungian notion is that Gog (i.e., man) is not only himself but also the sum of the past of the whole race. The naked amnesiac on the shores of Scotland must relive...