Palace of the Peacock
- 152pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
Il quartetto del GuyanaSerie
Questa serie approfondisce l'intricata fusione di culture e tradizioni disparate, ambientata sullo sfondo vibrante del Sud America. Attraverso una prosa ricca di metafore, esplora il potere della coscienza immaginativa di forgiare nuovi mondi e identità. Le narrazioni intrecciano storie di connessione umana e la ricerca di significato in contesti diversi. I lettori sono invitati in un viaggio in cui i confini tra realtà e mito si sfumano, rivelando profonde verità sullo spirito umano.
Ordine di lettura consigliato
- 1
This visionary novel follows the inner journey of Zechariah Stevenson, the son of a wealthy Georgetown businessman, while he works as the watchman at a timber depot deep within the interior. Isolated in the forest and having endured the suspicion of a fraud scandal, the mysterious death of his father, and the disappearance of his mistress, Zechariah begins a journey of self-discovery as he deconstructs previously held certainties about life by losing himself in nature. An immensely sensuous evocation of Guyanese flora and fauna and its potential impact on the imagination, this classic novel, first published in 1964, is a profound plea for an ecological vision of mankind's relationship to nature.
The Guyana Quartet is Wilson Harris's collection of novels comprising Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin, The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder. In Palace of the Peacock, a tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana, can be traced the poetic vision, themes and designs of Harris's subsequent work. It was described in "The Times" as displaying 'that staggering ebullience of language we have begun to recognize in West Indian writers'.
The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder
- 260pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
Set in British Guyana, the final two books (first published in 1962 and 1963) of The Guyana Quartet continue the author's literary exploration of the legacy and future of the former colony, which began with The Palace of the Peacock.