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	Illusion
		An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception.
		Unlike an hallucination, which is a sensory experience in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a distortion of a perception so it is understood and interpreted differently.
		These "illusionations" are not hallucinations in the strict sense of the word since they are not novel fabrications of the mind but rather a distortion of what is seen and heard.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/il/illusion.html (381 words)

	Illusions (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a 1977 book by Richard Bach that questions our views on reality.
		If that sounds like the point where Jonathan left off, it could be true: for Illusions reflects what has been going on in the author's head since the phenomenal success that changed his life.
		He is a messiah who leaves his job of being a messiah (and also of being a mechanic at a garage) after deciding that people value the showbiz-like performance of miracles and want to be entertained by those miracles more than understanding the message behind them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illusions_(novel) (345 words)

	THE NOVEL AS A GENRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The novel records the passage from a state of innocence to a state of experience, from that ignorance which is bliss to a mature recognition of the actual way of the world.
		Such a fall, in a novel, is a happy one, since it represents the completion of that educational process with which the novel deals, an education into the realities of the material world and of human life in society.
		The novel would then seem to be an essentially ironic fictional form, occupying a middle position between the non-ironic romance and the philosophical tale, which is ironic, but in ways often different from those of the novel.
	www.glenbard.dupage.k12.il.us /glenbard_south/southstaff/mikuska/ap/novelgen.htm (5402 words)

	Illusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mimes are known for a repetoire of illusions that are created by physical means.
		The mime artist creates an illusion of acting upon or being acted upon an unseen object.
		Unlike a hallucination, which is a sensory experience in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation so it is perceived in a distorted manner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illusion (362 words)

	Popular Italian Books, Spring 2005 \| The New York Public Library
		Novel whose protagonist is the richest and most powerful man in Italy and whose ambition knows no limits.
		A novel set in the Vatican, filled with mystery, by the author of âConclave,â who is a poet and winner of numerous prizes.
		A supernatural novel whose protagonist, Elias, is a young magician.
	www.nypl.org /branch/books/index2.cfm?ListID=252 (617 words)

	Amos Storkey - Visual Illusions
		Novel presentations: old illusions presented in a novel and artistic way which somehow heightens the effects of the illusion.
		These illusions are two of the many great works of Akiyoshi Kitaoka, and he holds the copyright.
		This is the Logvinenko illusion, and is the strongest lightness illusion in its class.
	www.anc.ed.ac.uk /~amos/visualillusion.html (2651 words)

	illusion \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Illusion Positive unreality, or that which is wholly and completely deceptive without basis in reality; as such some philosophers consider it to be rooted in the human mind itself, subjective or interior rather than external or objective.
		As thus understood, illusion falls far short of the significance of the Sanskrit maya, for which it is used as a translation.
		illusion to French illusion to Italian illusion to Spanish illusion to Dutch illusion to Portuguese illusion to German illusion to Russian illusion to Japanese illusion to Chinese (T) illusion to Chinese (S) illusion to Korean illusion to Turkish illusion to Hebrew illusion to Additional illusion to Croatian illusion to Serbian illusion to Swedish
	www.babylon.com /definition/illusion/?uil=English (379 words)

	Amazon.ca: House of illusions: A novel: Books: Pauline Gedge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		House of Dreams (1994) and its sequel House of Illusions started, I imagine, from the known fact that late in the long reign of the Twentieth Dynasty pharaoh Ramses III a conspiracy to assassinate him, originating in the harem, was uncovered, and a number of highly placed men and women were implicated and condemned.
		"Illusions" opens with the main character, Thu, a woman who has been banished to live alone in the desert, serving the priests in a temple there, because of an accusation that she attempted to kill Pharaoh when she lived at court.
		House of Illusions continues the story of Thu, and her son, who were separated under edict of Rameses III.
	www.amazon.ca /House-illusions-novel-Pauline-Gedge/dp/1559212004 (2003 words)

	The Opening of "Great Expectations"
		Pip is alone, physically alone in the cemetery and solitary in being an orphan; his aloneness prefigures the isolation he will experience later in the novel.
		His illusions about his family's tombstones are comic and convincing as the sort of misreading that a child might make; they also introduce the theme of failure to communicate.
		The adult Pip is remembering a milestone in his life, a moment when he had his "first vivid and broad impression of the identity of things" (page 1).
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_19c/dickens/opening.html (332 words)

	Misdirections Magic Shop -- Illusions
		The Essence of An Illusion by Jonathan Pendragon
		The secret illusion show is a guide to big stage magic effects that cost little or no money and can be put together in a short amount of time.
		A fascinating history of mirror illusions, from the famous ghosts that walked the stage in London to the secrets used by magicians throughout the 20th Century.
	www.misdirections.com /illusion.html (8576 words)

	Strife from Without and Within: Two Novels by Duong Thu Huong -- ThingsAsian Article
		But there seemed to be something of a self-aggrandizing subtext that I did not like: Pity the poor author to have been born under the red flag, and be glad that you live in the land of the free.
		Novel Without a Name has a rather more complicated message, including the idea that war is terrible unto madness.
		She thrives on ugly realities, and if the success of her novels in Vietnam is any indication, the Vietnamese are prepared to face these realities with her, on the way to their country's salvation - slogan-free.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2566.html (1407 words)

	Illusions
		The novel is written in the first person, but cinema has no effective corollary to first person literary narration as demonstrated by the failed experiment of The Lady in the Lake (1946), shot entirely from the direct point of view of the protagonist.
		The novel begins with a newspaper report of the discovery of Celia’s body and then subsequently alternates between the present of the investigation and episodes from Paul’s past.
		In Gee’s novel the fictional small town of Wadesville becomes an anonymous suburb of Auckland as the city sprawls in a direct swipe at modernity, the loss of the orchards and creeks mirroring Paul’s own loss of innocence.
	www.illusions.org.nz /essays/37_2005/page_CinemaPoetry.htm (4204 words)

	A review of Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach, and other books by this author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Although it is written as a novel, it is deeply meaningful, and the reader definitely is on a road of personal growth through reading it.
		The idea that anyone and everyone can be a messiah, or live like one, or perhaps even is one, purely because of the lives we are able to touch and influence on a daily basis: this creates in the reader a sense of responsibility to mankind.
		Having a good novel and an inspirational book rolled into one, it is a fantastic combination.
	www.vibrantuniverse.com /archives/illusions.html (505 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin
		In addition to novels, her work encompasses short stories, screenplays, essays, poetry, literature for children and young adults.
		Born Ursula Kroeber on 21 October 1929 in Berkeley, California, she is the daughter of two famous Berkeley academics, anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and author Theodora Kroeber.
		Coincidentally, the novel tackled issues of gender roles and biological determination just as the Women's Rights movement was returning into the consciousness of mainstream America.
	www.nndb.com /people/719/000023650 (1446 words)

	The Book of Illusions: A Novel by Picador
		Although film images are technically "illusions," this deft and layered novel is not so much about conscious illusion or trickery as about the traces we leave behind us: words, images, memories.
		The second half of The Book of Illusions is given over to a love affair, and to Zimmer's attempt to save something of Hector Mann, and of the others he has loved.
		The Book of Illusions is, in the words of Peter Carey, 'suffused with warmth and illuminated by its narrator's hard won wisdom.
	www.naturalskincare.ws /stuff-0312421818.html (1641 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Beyond Illusions
		Huong, the Hanoi-based author of Memories of a Pure Spring, Novel Without a Name and Paradise of the Blind, fought on the side of the Communists during the Vietnam War.
		But for her subsequent criticism of the government she has been in and out of jail, and her books are banned in her homeland.
		Beyond Illusions presents a Vietnam still scarred by wartime memories of deprivation, long marches to the front and the American bombings.
	www.bookpage.com /0202bp/fiction/beyond_illusions.html (362 words)

	Reading "Lost Illusions" - Salon
		I understood that this was a novel -- the novel -- about a provincial young man who shows up in the cultural capital of his day with the notion of making it as a writer.
		These are the illusions with which Lucien Chardon, aspiring to be Lucien de Rupembr, leaves his hometown, along with some seed money given him by his devoted sister and best friend.
		The sister and friend have recently married, and are also allied in their goodness of heart and their fond hopes for "the poet," as Balzac calls him with mounting irony.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/08/08/balzac/index.html (832 words)

	Chapter 7: Explicity Daoist Works
		In the novel he is the hero because the novel accepts a Daoist world-view and ethic.
		In the novel, Orr returns to what he essentially is, and Haber works out the logic of his villain role, finally (in the dried onion image) having the last layers stripped from him to reveal the void at his core.
		The Earthsea novels, then, are set on Earth in a legendary time in which consolidation of power under a king might be the least bad political option.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /sfra/Coyote/daoistnovels.htm (14607 words)

	Amazon.com: Beyond Illusions : A Novel: Books: Duong Thu Huong,Phan Huy Duong,Nina McPherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Vietnamese dissident Duong's first novel, now available for the first time in the U.S. (the writer's previously published books in English include Memories of a Pure Spring and Novel Without a Name), is an exposure of the corruption beneath the facade of postwar Vietnam.
		As the novel opens, we meet Nguyen, a college professor who is the father of a young daughter.
		While this first novel is less steeped in the political element and easier to read than some of Duong's other works, it is similar in its focus on the human element and in its portrayal of the political climate of Vietnam.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786864176?v=glance (906 words)

	The Book of Illusions, by Paul Auster
		This stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another.
		With The Book of Illusions, one of America's most powerful and original writers has written his richest, most emotionally charged work yet.
		Paul Auster's most recent novel, Timbuktu, was a national bestseller, as was I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited.
	www.henryholt.com /holt/bookofillusions.htm (380 words)

	Goddess of Illusions - An Original Fantasy Novel
		Ciantarah, the beautiful Goddess of Illusions, is compelled to help a young Sorcerer-Prince dispel a terrible curse that will result in his own madness and death.
		This original fantasy novel, set in the unique realm of Zalir, is a work in progress.
		If you'd like to get a feel for the novel without going to the trouble of requesting a password, an excerpt is now available for all.
	www.goddessofillusions.com (313 words)

	Paul Auster's, 'The Book of Illusions' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		But even though the last word in this novel is hope, if I was looking for a redemptive moment, the novel failed me or I failed the novel.
		It is exhausting to read a novel without any colour The narrator is an academic, and analyses art, in this case silent movies, until it lies dead as any corpse.
		Early in the novel Zimmer is forced to attend a party given by former colleagues, Auster gives us a searing picture of a man burning with grief.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/bookofillusions.html (1007 words)

	Fiction (washingtonpost.com)
		That her fiction is produced under an oppressive regime infuses her impressive debut novel, Beyond Illusions (Hyperion, $23.95), first published in 1987 and now appearing in English for the first time, with an increased sense of urgency.
		Because the events of the novel unfold in retrospect, the perspective is awkward and distancing for the reader, as well as tiresome.
		Cot lectures her interrogator on the evils of racism and earnestly utters lines such as this: "I have heard that on the night before great battles soldiers often do not sleep, but under the eye of death take on a last wondrous animation." Her speech is absurdly poetic: "I looked away from our certain plight.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A279-2002Mar21 (1569 words)

	OSIRIS' BOOKSTORE
		Sacrifices -- a novel of the helicopter war in Vietnam.
		Lost Illusions -- a novel of sex, drugs, and religion in 1970's middle-class counterculture.
		Angelo and James' powerful novel is an epic historical drama about the history of Montenegro and the Bosnian people.
	www.zianet.com /postpubco/bookstore.htm (427 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Illusion
		Optical illusion: erroneous perception of certain qualities of objects (shape, dimensions, colour, etc.).
		Enter the drawing of a child who reproduces a house and a well pulled(entailed) painter who plays the illusion so that « the eye can realize ».
		But made everything is illusion that we are one ants or a human being.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=6650 (534 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: Honoré de Balzac: Lost Illusions
		Hunt's introduction to the book provides a necessary reminder (well, necessary for me) that the literary career was really quite well developed, at least as a possibility, in the first half of the nineteenth century.
		The novel paints, it is said, 'a scathing view of the world of letters'; and you don't need much insight to guess that many of Lucien's experiences are thinly disguised (if that) versions of what happened to Balzac on his way to the top.
		I withhold judgment on the novelette, except to say that it is a luminous, taut, gripping, profoundly moving and insightful masterpiece.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2005/03/honor-de-balzac-lost-illusions.html (1104 words)

	Book Review - The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
		At one point in his 10th novel, The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster briefly refers to this philosophical concept.
		The book opens with the sentence, "Everyone thought he was dead." It refers to a silent film comedian named Hector Mann who just disappeared one day back in 1929, but it could just as easily refer to the protagonist of the story, David Zimmer, a literature professor at a liberal arts college in Vermont.
		David Zimmer narrates the entire novel while writing a book many years later to tell the story of that time in his life, and the story of Hector Mann.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /book_of_illusions/review (1326 words)

	Perceptual Science Group at MIT
		This interactive tutorial demonstrates how lightness illusions provide insights into the underlying mechanisms of the human visual system.
		Demonstrates how the visual system uses several tricks to determine where shadows are and how to compensate for them.
		An illusion that demonstrates how the visual system can experience great lighting differences even when two elements are actually the same color.
	persci.mit.edu /gallery.html (123 words)

	The Magic Life -- A Novel Philosophy
		The Magic Life is a novel that tells an intriguing story, an almost metaphysical mystery, that keeps you turning the pages while its life lessons jump from the pages you turn.
		On one hand it's the story of a man who dreamt of becoming a magician, but instead became an accountant – a man who yearned for one particular woman, but never quite had the courage to tell her so.
		This novel philosophy is almost spiritual in nature and borders on the metaphysical at times.
	starry.com /novel/rforest.htm (1270 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Book of Illusions: A Novel: Livres en anglais: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		As Grund and Zimmer fall in love, she fills in the decades-long gap in Mann's life-a strange American odyssey that culminated on a ranch in New Mexico where he made movies he refused to screen for anyone.
		As in previous novels, Auster here makes the unbelievable completely credible, and his overall themes are very much of a piece with those of earlier works: the "mutinous unpredictability of matter" and the way storytellers shape and organize unpredictability.
		Le livre des illusions retrace tant le parcours de 2 hommes que celui du cinéma.
	www.amazon.fr /Book-Illusions-A-Novel/dp/0312421818 (1329 words)

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