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The Ways of Paradise

Peter Cornell

Saskia Vogel

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus. Upon his death, no trace of this work remains aside from this set of notes and fragments which form an enigmatic set of texts on the connections between art, literature, spirituality and the occult through history, with a particular focus on spirals and labyrinths. Ranging from the Crusades to Ruskin, Freud to surrealism, cubism, automatic writing, Duchamp, the Manhattan Project, Pollock and Smithson, this cult book, first published in Sweden in 1987, is translated into English for the first time by Saskia Vogel.

  • Classification : Literary Essays
  • Pub Date : NOV 21, 2024
  • Imprint : Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Page Extent :
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781804271063
  • Price : INR 1,099
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Peter Cornell

Born in Stockholm in 1942, Peter Cornell is a writer, historian and art critic. He taught theory and history of modern art at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) and the Royal Institute of the Arts (Kungliga Konsthögskolan) in Stockholm, and was an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (Konstakademien). 

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Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel is from Los Angeles and lives in Berlin where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on power and sexuality for publications such as Paris Review Daily The White Review Sight and Sound and The Offing. Previously she worked as Granta magazine's publicist and as an editor at the
AVN Media Network where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products.

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