THE FOUR BANKS OF THE RIVER OF SPACE (AUTOGRAPHED)

Harris, Wilson

ISBN 10: 057114361X / ISBN 13: 9780571143610

Published by London Faber & Faber. c1990, 1990

About this Item

VG/VG. The pages show some yellowing with slight staining on the edges. The jacket has minor rubbing and creasing at the extremities. ; Presentatio n copy to English poet Kathleen Raine to whom the book is dedicated. Signed on the dedication page: "Kathleen Raine warmest good wishes Wilson Harris 1990." Illustrated with diagrams The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price-clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. ; Diagrams; 8vo.; 161 pages; Signed by Author. First Edition. Binding is Hardcover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE FOUR BANKS OF THE RIVER OF SPACE (AUTOGRAPHED)
• Publisher: London Faber & Faber. c1990
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057114361X
• ISBN 13: 9780571143610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.