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Martin Wilson: THE CRYSTALLINE PIAZZA and other stories. The twenty stories in THE CRYSTALLINE PIAZZA display the full range of Martin Wilson's abilities as a writer of imaginative fiction. The stories are marked by dissolving and reforming realities. Amidst surrealistic landscapes, lost souls grope towards obscure destinies. A race of terminal beachcombers collects the remnants of civilisation. An arrivee in the Heavenly City discovers where his ultimate residence is to be. A cyclic process takes one inhabitant of a house of the living dead to another house that differs subtly from it. The writing combines a precise, almost mathematical style with a symbolist ethic of aloofness. Martin Wilson describes his stories as "metaphysical" after the paintings of de Chirico, which he says have profoundly influenced him.
198mm pb 192pp £9.99 (U.K.) ISBN 9780952772354
Arnold Geulincx: METAPHYSICS. Translated from the Latin with a Preface and Notes by Martin Wilson.
Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) was one of the leading exponents of the Occasionalist tendency in Cartesian Philosophy: the will is free, but powerless, and can only express the wish that God should act on the body; while the body itself is an instrument through which God arouses thoughts in the mind. Geulincx' METAPHYSICS (Metaphysica Vera) is an exposition of his principal doctrines concerning Mind, Body, and God.
Geulincx' doctrines have been generally misrepresented in textbooks and histories of Philosophy, owing to lack of first-hand knowledge of his writings. This book, the first appearance in English of a major work by Geulincx, therefore fills an important gap in the study of 17th Century Rationalism.
21.5cm pb 140pp £7.50 (U.K.) ISBN 0 9527723 4 5
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Martin Wilson: THE CASTLE OF OBLIVION.
The Earth is deserted but for one forgotten building in which a final macabre drama is being staged.... pb 140pp $3.00 (U.S.) £2.50 (U.K.) ISBN 0-9527723-2-9
Almeric, a youth of mysterious origin, is being cared for (though really confined) in a remote and derelict Castle by his servant, the sinister Manes. His discovery that he is a magician enables him to outwit Manes, but it also brings dangers....
The Castle of Oblivion, the first in a trilogy of novels, presents a cruel and unforgettable picture of a completely self-sufficient world designed for the repression of its master.
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