The mountains of the moon

With endearing eccentric joy and great pertness, John Cowper Powys continues in ‘The Mountains of the Moon’ his late-life project of short works investigating life’s philosophic underpinnings through the mode of untrammelled fantasy. With slyly veiled Freudian references and contrasting extreme directness, he weaves a crazy story of distinctive fluidity, married with extraordinary original vision – in this case about two young Moon-dwellers, one of whom goes missing. Has Rorlt been abducted? Or is she setting up home with her first lover? An extraordinary cast of ‘characters’ (animal, vegetable and mineral!) set out to find her.