Tetrarch
Title | Tetrarch |
Year for Search | 1980 |
Authors | Comfort, Alex[ander](1920-2000) |
Date Published | 1980 |
Publisher | Shambala/Random House |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | English author, Male author |
Annotation | Allegory/fantasy depicting a number of eutopias and dystopias based loosely on various mythologies and William Blake (1757-1827) in particular. Verula is an evil city with high technology and a repressive culture and represents the contemporary world. The central eutopia, Los, is a sexually free, cooperative society. There are appendices of "The Losian Religion As Expounded by William Blake," Losian Grammar, examples of the Losian Script, and a Losian Vocabulary. |
Author Note | While the author (1920-2000) is best known for his books on sexual technique like The Joy of Sex (1972), his career ranged through fiction, poetry, anarchist theory, the biology of aging, and geriatric psychology. |
Full Text | 1980 Comfort, Alex[ander] (1920-2000). Tetrarch. Allegory/fantasy depicting a number of eutopias and dystopias based loosely on various mythologies and William Blake (1757-1827) in particular. Verula is an evil city with high technology and a repressive culture and represents the contemporary world. The central eutopia, Los, is a sexually free, cooperative society. There are appendices of “The Losian Religion As Expounded by William Blake,” Losian Grammar, examples of the Losian Script, and a Losian Vocabulary. . |