Deadlock

About the book

"Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6" by Dorothy M. Richardson is a novel published in 1921. The sixth installment of Richardson's groundbreaking modernist sequence follows Miriam Henderson as she delves into philosophical inquiry, attending lectures by British Idealist philosopher John Ellis McTaggart. She engages in deep intellectual discussions with fellow lodger Michael Shatov, exploring ideas from Spencer, Emerson, Spinoza, and Nietzsche. Their relationship intensifies as philosophical questions about being and reality shape Miriam's maturing consciousness, leading to profound personal decisions.