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Title: A grand gnostic allegory
Review: This is Lindsay's masterpiece, a visionary work of the religious imagination that reads like a Gnostic "Pilgrim's Progress," with the hero, Maskull, progressing through various stages of human belief and error (philosophical, Theosophical, neo-Nietzschean, you name it)in his trek across the world of Tormance. Lindsay's sense of acosmic dualism, Good and Evil fighting for Man's soul, is at times almost Manichaean in its intensity. Harold Bloom's 1979 novel "A Flight to Lucifer" is a direct lift of Lindsay's earlier work, a sort of pale academic misprision of the luminous original. Read them both and see for yourself the difference between a Surtur and a Shaping!
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