Pilgrim (63 page)

Auguste Forel
(his predecessor)

Sabine Spielrein
(Jung’s ex-patient/lover)

Antonia Wolff
(another ex-patient who became a psychiatric intern and was Jung’s lover until her death in 1953. Jung’s letters to Freud outline his conviction that marriage must make room for such polygamous affairs.)

Sigmund Freud
(Austrian psychiatrist and Jung’s early mentor)

William James
(American psychiatrist who originated the notion of “the stream of consciousness”)

OXFORD

Walter Pater
(English critic and Oxford don who published
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
in 1873, containing his famous description of the
Mona Lisa
, which is paraphrased on page 257 of this novel [“All the thoughts…mother of Mary.”])

FLORENCE

Elisabetta Gherardini
(Madonna Elisabetta del Giocondo—the
Mona Lisa, La Gioconda
)

Signor Antonio de Noldo Gherardini
(her father)

Signora Alicia Gherardini
(her mother)

Leonardo da Vinci
(artist/tyrant, who did refuse to paint the face of Christ in
The Last Supper
, and who did keep the
Mona Lisa
by his bedside until his death in France in 1519)

Gerolamo Savonarola
(Dominican priest and zealot)

SPAIN

Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada
(Saint Teresa of Avila)

Alonso de Cepeda
(her father)

Doña Beatriz de Cepeda y Ahumada
(her mother)

Rodrigo de Cepeda
(Teresa’s brother)

Pedro de Cepeda
(Alonso’s brother)

CHARTRES

Henry Adams
(American author/critic, whose vivid descriptions of the building of Chartres Cathedral include the many destructive fires in its history [except the fictional one presented here]. Adams also describes the stained-glass window known as
Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière,
the only window to survive the 1194 fire.)

Aside from the books already mentioned, the following have been invaluable sources of information:
Memories, Dreams and Reflections,
by C.G. Jung;
The Freud/Jung Letters,
edited by William McGuire;
Carl Gustav Jung
by Frank McLynn; Mona Lisa:
The Picture and the Myth
, by Roy McMullen;
The Greek Myths
by Robert Graves;
The Biography of Oscar Wilde
, by Richard Ellman;
Teresa of Avila
by Kate O’Brien and
The Eagle and the Dove
by Vita Sackville-West.

My thanks also to Beverley Roberts for her exhaustive research; Mary Adachi for her matchless copy editing; Nicole Langlois, Karen Hanson and Sabine Roth for their sharp-eyed spotting of inconsistencies; David Staines for his helpful reading of an early draft; and to Iris Tupholme, Larry Ashmead and Doris Janhsen for their editorial wisdom. Thanks also to my agent, Bruce Westwood, for his unflagging energy, enthusiasm and support. Lastly, I thank William Whitehead, who suffered endless emendations in the transformation of virtually thousands of unreadable handwritten pages into legible typing—and for his equally endless encouragement.

Also By Timothy Findley

Novels

The Last of the Crazy
People The Butterfly Plague
The Wars

Famous Last Words
Not Wanted on the Voyage
The Telling of Lies
Headhunter
The Piano Man’s Daughter
Spadework

Novella
You Went Away

Short Fiction

Dinner Along the Amazon
Stones
Dust to Dust

Plays

Can You See Me Yet?
John A.—Himself
The Stillborn Lover
The Trials of Ezra Pound
Elizabeth Rex

Non-Fiction

Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer’s Workbook
From Stone Orchard: A Collection of Memories
Journeyman: Travels of a Writer TIMOTHY FINDLEY

Praise for PILGRIM

THE #I NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Findley has consummate skill, disturbing vision and a bleak skepticism about the value of art…Despite what Pilgrim says, it’s enough to make one believe even more in the power of art.”

—
Time

“
Pilgrim
is a marvellously complex set of Chinese boxes, each apparently smaller box opening to ever larger vistas…Anyone who delights in well-wrought fictions that contain complexly human characters in richly philosophic conflict will find it a complicated delight.”

—
Edmonton Journal

“Seeing Findley’s name on a book’s cover immediately sends a signal to readers: here’s a story that will be provocative and intriguing, beautifully told, and one-of-a-kind. Findley offers both sheer unputdownable entertainment and intelligent, thoughtful writing.”

—
Booklist

“
Pilgrim
endlessly rewards the reader with luxuriant prose, complex characters and challenging ideas. It is an adventuresome ride well worth taking.”

—
Chicago Tribune

“A compellingly literate mystery novel…[Findley’s] sentences are marvels of economy.”

—
The Vancouver Sun

“The questions posed by
Pilgrim
are heavy ones. Why, given access to the wisdom of the centuries, would a person choose oblivion? Why would he come to see art not as solace, but as part of the problem? It’s to Findley’s credit that he has found a story, and a hero, able to carry the weight.”

—
The Gazette
(Montreal)

“This is a five-ring circus, an ambitious fictional dissertation with a sweep of research that [draws] the line between medicine and coercion, imagination and madness, and infidelity and cruelty.”

—
National Post

“This is a polished and exhilarating entertainment that’s challenging, mystifying and expertly crafted.”

—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

“Strange and ambitious and engaging are the adjectives that come most readily to mind after reading Timothy Findley’s new novel,
Pilgrim…
Both impressive and haunting, a
fin de siècle
fable and a prophecy from one of our most resilient writers.”

—
Quill & Quire

“A metaphysical thriller.”

—
The New Yorker

“A rich narrative tapestry that weaves together history, Jungian psychology, philosophical debate and intricate plot.”

—
Ottawa Citizen

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