Koop 10 boeken voor 10 € hier!
Bookbot

De Karnavals-Trilogie Reeks

Deze trilogie dompelt lezers onder in een betoverende wereld waar magie en realiteit verweven zijn te midden van geheimen en intriges. De verhalen volgen personages die worden meegezogen in een gevaarlijk lot, tegen de achtergrond van een betoverend maar sinister carnaval. Bereid u voor op een meeslepende reis vol onverwachte wendingen, romantiek en bovennatuurlijke elementen die u van begin tot eind in hun greep zullen houden.

The Carnival Trilogy
The Four Banks of the River of Space

Aanbevolen leesvolgorde

  1. 3

    The Four Banks of the River of Space

    • 160bladzijden
    • 6 uur lezen

    A novel about the complexities of memory, Wilson Harris's The Four Banks of the River of Space is a return to the writer's childhood haunts. Shunning what he calls sterile realism, Harris digs under the reality of perception and language to find the hidden music or pattern which gives significance to apparently desperate situations. Memory thus becomes a form of creation which follows the Odyssean metaphor of the quest naturalized here in the author's original Guyana heartland. This journey into the past does not limit itself to the reassertion of the protagonist's multiculturalism. It states that poetic language can only progress through erasure leading to the opening out of new doors or windows into essential reality, where polarities melt away.The Four Banks of the River of Space fragments the epic figure of Ulysses into several personalities who conduct self-analyses to redefine the nature and function of myth.

    The Four Banks of the River of Space

Gerelateerde boeken

  • The Carnival Trilogy

    • 448bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen
    4,0(1)Tarief

    This volume, introduced by the author, brings together three novels first published separately. 'The trilogy comprises Carnival (1985), The Infinite Rehearsal (1987) and The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990), novels linked by metaphors borrowed from theatre, traditional carnival itself and literary mythology. The characters make Odyssean voyages through time and space, witnessing and re-enacting the calamitous history of mankind, sometimes assuming sacrificial roles in an attempt to save modern civilisation from self-destruction.' Independent on Sunday 'The Four Banks of the River of Space is a kind of quantum Odyssey... in which the association of ideas is not logical but... a 'magical imponderable dreaming'. The dreamer is Anselm, another of Harris's alter egos, like Everyman Masters in Carnival and Robin Redbreast Glass in The Infinite Rehearsal... Together, they represent one of the most remarkable fictional achievements in the modern canon.' Listener

    The Carnival Trilogy