PETER SACKSA Literary Exhibition
A literary exploration of how civilizations inherit wounds,
sanctify power, limit imagination, and recover
the possibility of freedom.
Room I
The Wound
FERADIM
Enter the room →Room II
The Sacred
The Narcissism of the Sacred
Enter the room →Room III
The Witness
001-054
Enter the room →Room IV
The Abdication
Lord Atlas
Enter the room →This exhibition is a literary investigation into power and its grip on the human imagination.
Four novels belong to this exhibition: FERADIM, The Narcissism of the Sacred, 001-054, and Lord Atlas. I wrote them over many years, following characters whose choices took me further than I expected. The connections between the books became clear as the work accumulated.
Power enters these lives through belief, through love, through the ordinary authority of people who presume to know who someone is and what that person should become. Those judgments reach into the imagination itself. They shape what a person believes is possible and what a whole society can conceive of becoming.
My characters keep going. They follow a buried voice, write a book, confront an inheritance. Their pursuit brings them into conflict with people and institutions that depend on their compliance. It also asks something of them: how much will they risk for the life they can imagine?
All four novels are currently unpublished. This exhibition opens them to readers through selected chapters and essays about the work.
You can begin with any novel or explore their connections in The Project. Follow whatever catches your attention.
Peter Sacks
Across the four novels
The Project
My novels begin inside private lives, but they do not stay private. My characters keep moving until the world reveals itself through them.
Explore the essays →