A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew through the jungle. I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ... A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador, obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock ... A modernist fever dream, prose poem, modern myth, elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris' masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years, and is reissued for a new generation of readers. The Guyanese William Blake ... [Such] poetic intensity. -- Angela Carter
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ISBN | 9780571368044 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, FICTION / Magical Realism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Speculative fiction, Fiction: general & literary, Fiction: general and literary, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Faber & Faber |
Jahr | 20211104 |
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