The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's first novel, more than forty years after its original appearance in 1963. MacEwen described what she set out to achieve as a "sort of powerful poetic mad half-abandoned prose somewhere between [Kenneth] Patchen and Virginia Woolf." Set in a medieval past that has distinctly modern overtones, the novel is about Julian, a young man who believes he is Christ. Wandering the countryside in a horse-drawn wagon, Julian learns "to suspend logic like a whale on a thread." He becomes a master of alchemy, performing "miracles" like curing the mad and changing water into wine. When his rapt audiences begins to lose faith, Julian must pay with his life.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- General Note
- First published: Toronto : Macmillan, 1963 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459308817 1894663578
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M313
- LCCN Item number
- J8 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (168 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00213768 (OCoLC)431529794 (CaOOCEL)407917
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Julian the Magician 4
- one/the baptism 12
- two/water and wine 24
- three/the riverman 36
- four/waterwalk 48
- five/Ivan 58
- six/Lazarus 70
- seven /the last supper 80
- eight/the betrayal 90
- nine/the trial 102
- ten/Golgotha 114
- EPILOGUE... 122
- DAY ONE 126
- DAY TWO 132
- DAY THREE 138
- DAY FOUR 146
- DAY FIVE 152
- DAY SIX 160
- DAY SEVEN* 166
- Afterword 172
- Suggested Reading 174
