Set like his first novel in The Guyana Quartet in the former colony of British Guiana, the second novel The Far Journey of Oudin is further proof of the intensity and originality of Wilson Harris's imaginative power and literary skill. Against a background of swamp, jungle and savannah a strange drama is played out in which the chief characters are the money-lender Ram - an evil, presiding genius - the illegitimate Beti whom all men desire, and Oudin the beggar who works for several masters and belongs to none. Focusing on ...
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Set like his first novel in The Guyana Quartet in the former colony of British Guiana, the second novel The Far Journey of Oudin is further proof of the intensity and originality of Wilson Harris's imaginative power and literary skill. Against a background of swamp, jungle and savannah a strange drama is played out in which the chief characters are the money-lender Ram - an evil, presiding genius - the illegitimate Beti whom all men desire, and Oudin the beggar who works for several masters and belongs to none. Focusing on the traumatising effects of slavery on West Indian society, the novel depicts how the new-found freedoms and perceived social progress experienced by former peasants mask the fact that the old master-slave structure is reasserting itself among the descendants of an exploited people.
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Fine. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in mint condition. Both the pages and the cover are completely intact, without zero sign of previous usage.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Remainder mark else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Author's second novel, as well as the second volume in the Guiana Quartet.
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London, Faber and Faber, 1961, hardcover, 136 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Very Good Dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight bumps to spine. Dustjacket price-clipped, light nicks to corners and head of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The second book from the award-winning Guyanese author of more than 35 works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry many groundbreaking in style and most centered around his beloved Guyana and other nearby Caribbean locales.
