Présentation de l'éditeur In his tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana, first published in 1960, Wilson Harris revealed the unique poetic vision and laid out the themes and designs, not only of his famous work, The Guyana Quartet, but of all his future work. The Palace of the Peacock displays that vision in all its hallucinatory vividness, given additional impact by its rejection of the conventions of the twentieth-century novel and the uncompromising energy of its use of language in its response to character and landscape. The compelling adventure story of the narrative is paralleled by the artistic adventure of its composition. Biographie de l'auteur Wilson Harris was born in British Guyana in 1921 and came to live in London in 1959. He has received honorary doctorates from the universities of the West Indies, Kent at Canterbury, Essex, Macerata (Italy) and Liege (Belgium). His many novels include Jonestown, The Guyana Quartet and The Carnival Trilogy.
