Short Story Criticism | Dick, Philip K. - James Keith La Croix (essay date 19 June 2002)

James Keith La Croix (essay date 19 June 2002)

SOURCE: La Croix, James Keith. “You Lookin' At Me?” Metro Times, http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=3390 (19 June 2002).

[In the following excerpt, La Croix discusses the role of paranoia in Dick's life and writing, especially the short story "The Minority Report.”]

par-a-noi-a n. 1. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions … ascribed to the supposed hostility of others. 2. a baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others … Gk. paránoia madness.

And with Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise releasing their own big-budget meditation on paranoia in Minority Report, it's a fine time to ponder Philip K. Dick, the late pulp-fiction Kafka on whose writing the film is based. Or is it Dick's life that the film is based on?...

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