Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The
Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life
to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship
between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this is
the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, work.
In the Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called “2-3-74”, a postmodern
visionary experience of the entire universe “transformed into information”. In entries that sometimes ran to
hundreds of pages, in a freewheeling voice that ranges through personal confession, esoteric scholarship,
dream accounts, and fictional fugues, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested
his powers of imagination and invention to the limit.