Fiction: Ægypt by John Crowley

[Paul Ferguson]

"Ægypt is a fantasy tetralogy written by American author John Crowley. The series describes the life and work of Pierce Moffett, a history professor who prepares a manuscript for publication even as it prepares him for some as-yet unknown destiny, all set amidst strange and subtle Hermetic manipulations among the Faraway Hills at the border of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...The four volumes deal with Moffett's real and dream life in the United States in 1977 (and, in an extended coda, into the early 1980s) with the narrative of the manuscript he is preparing for publication. Another manuscript, left unfinished by its author Fellowes Kraft and discovered by Moffett, is an historical fiction that follows the briefly intersecting adventures of Italian heretic Giordano Bruno and of British occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley."

https://www.amazon.com/Aegypt-John-Crowl...0553345923

[Paul Ferguson]

James Hynes asks, "Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?"

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/ja...e-trouble/