Cette série explore la fusion complexe de cultures et de traditions disparates, dans le cadre vibrant de l'Amérique du Sud. À travers une prose riche en métaphores, elle explore le pouvoir de la conscience imaginative pour forger de nouveaux mondes et identités. Les récits tissent des histoires de connexion humaine et de quête de sens dans des contextes divers. Les lecteurs sont invités à un voyage où les frontières entre réalité et mythe s'estompent, révélant de profondes vérités sur l'esprit humain.
In a richly metaphorical style, the book sets out the themes Wilson continues to develop in his writing to this day: the ability of the imaginative consciousness to create worlds where disparate cultures and traditions are fused.Donne, an ambitious skipper, leads a multiracial crew up an unnamed river in the rainforest.
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'.
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.