Dick in France

Critics usually contrast Dick’s warm reception in France with the lack of recognition he supposedly had in the Anglo-American world. This statement, if generally true, must be qualified. On the one hand, his reception in the US was comparable to that of an author like Ray Bradbury, say. And the evidence suggesting that Dick’s books were readily accepted for publication there by the same token indicates that he was never at a loss for readers. On the other hand, his much-touted acclaim in France was not totally unambiguous—did not entirely have to do with what he wrote. His appeal also had to do with certain favorable socio-political and cultural circumstances: his works began appearing in translation at the time of the evenenients of May ’68: their ostensible portrait of America was welcomed in a period of anti-Americanism that came in reaction to US involvement in Vietnam: his texts lent themselves to virtually all the intellectual approaches fashionable in France in the late ’60s and ’70s; and into the bargain, they were attractive to those involved in counter-cultural pursuits. (RMP)

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