This dreamlike masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris’ centenary.
I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye … British Guiana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands; a colony haunted by the enduring legacies of slavery and murder. A riverboat crew led charts a quest seeking indigenous peoples to exploit as plantation labour; but their journey becomes a spiritual voyage towards the Palace of the Peacock … A genius money-lender, illegitimate child, and beggar become entangled in a strange drama that illuminates how slavery’s descendants struggle to achieve true freedom … A man accused of a murder he didn’t commit is on the run in the jungle swamplands; but as his innocence is disputed, he stages his death, entering a hallucinatory otherworld … A government surveyour captaining a boat crew encounters an elderly local man who accuses him of unfair dealings and threatens rebellion, building to a nightmarish climax … Reissued as a new omnibus with a foreword by Ishion Hutchinson to mark Sir Wilson Harris’ centenary, The Guyana Quartet – The Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder – is a dazzling, mythic, epic masterpiece, as revolutionary today as it was over half a century ago. The Guyanese William Blake … [Such] poetic intensity. — Angela CarterAuthor: Wilson Harris
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02/08/2022
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780571368075
Language: English
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