Fill the World

Fill the World by Goddard Keiran offers a profound look into the life of Henry Darger, an eccentric janitor living in 1973 Chicago. As his life nears its end in a St. Augustine's nursing home, this work of fiction explores the hidden depths of a man the world ignored. Darger spent his solitary existence collecting scraps of news and treasures to fuel a massive, private universe. While the industrializing American landscape felt cruel and grey to him, his internal world was filled with the epic struggles of the Vivian Girls against evil forces in the Realms of the Unreal.

This volume 1 novel examines the intersection of reality and the vivid, apocalyptic visions that define Darger's legacy as an icon of American outsider art. Fill the World provides a mysterious and shocking portrait of a creator who found more color in his imagination than in the concrete reality of the twentieth century. This compelling piece of fiction delves into the mind of a man whose disturbing yet beautiful creations eventually changed the art world forever.