Nekyia—A night sea journey

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… clearly the work of a ‘born writer’. The phrase is overworked, but necessary in this case to describe writing which seems effortless and yet is vivid, energetic, and powerful in its effects. Descriptions of sea, weather, ice-scape and the life on board ship strongly convey the varied beauty and the elemental non-human force of this part of the world. They also, with unforced ease, show the sea as a symbol of the unconscious. Thus the journey becomes a metaphor of the quest for human knowledge and its present limitations.
Dr Jennifer Livett
English Department
University of Tasmania

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A meditation on the limits of human knowledge, gracefully written and cast in approachable narrative form.
J M Coetzee,
Nobel Prize for Literature 2003.

This is a wonderful story of struggle, growth, risk-taking and finally the kind of peace that comes with understanding.
Dr Moira Nicholls,
School of Philosophy,
University of Tasmania

An absorbing voyage of the soul and, unusually for a novel, the mind.
Dr Vivienne Mawson
CSIRO Marine Research

‘Nekyia’—from Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey—was the original title of Book XI, which tells the Odysseus’ night sea voyage into the underworld and his encounter with the spirits of the dead. The term was revived in the early twentieth century by the Swiss psychologist Dr Carl Jung to describe a journey into the unconscious psyche.

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