Here are some things I think the book does really well. It just so happens that these big questions encompass all those other things. This novel really tackles the big questions in a focused and metaphorical way. The novel isn’t done in a way that tries to be about everything and ends up being about nothing.
It’s about revelation, separation, unity, isolation, love, sex, power, God, redemption, finding meaning, culture, and on and on.
They gradually fall in love.Īlso, a billion other things are going on by this point, so don’t think that’s “really” the story. Gentle learns of what it did, and Pie takes Gentle into the other dominions. Pie seduces Gentle by appearing to be Judith. It becomes basically whatever its lover wants to see in it. The assassin, Pie, is a being from one of these other dominions that doesn’t really have a gender. Gentle miraculously succeeds in doing this. He has second thoughts and contacts Judith’s ex, Gentle, to stop the assassin. The novel begins with a man who is so in love with a woman, Judith, that he hires an assassin to kill her after she breaks up with him (obviously, so she can’t be with anyone else). There’s a longtime conspiracy of people (I use this term lightly) making up a secret society to keep the Fifth Dominion separate from the other four.
We’ve never seen these other magical places. Earth, as we humans know it, is the Fifth Dominion. I’ll try to set up the premise to give you an idea of the bizarre-ness, though, the whole point of the novel shifts by about 1/10 of the way through. I’d liken it to Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain. It’s more of a surrealist examination of spirituality. There are some gory images here and there, but I’d most certainly not classify it as horror. It’s very weird, but in a wildly inventive and wonderful way. It’s going to be fairly difficult to describe anything about this book. Still, Imajica came up on my radar for some reason, and I decided to give it a go. Heart of Darkness as a Psychological Novel | Psychological Journey
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