The Horse's Mouth - Softcover

Cary, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060920211 ISBN 13: 9780060920210

Verlag: HarperPerennial, 1990

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Book by Cary Joyce

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An artist tramp meets only hostility and persecution when he attempts to paint a vast mural of The Creation

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Joyce Cary wrote two trilogies, or triptychs as he later preferred to call them. The first comprises: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth. The Horse's Mouth is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its principal character, Gulley Gimson, is an impoverished painter who scorns conventional good behaviour. He may be a bad citizen, but he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation for its sake. Such is his contempt for orthodox mores, he takes a delight in cocking a snook at them. For him there is only one morality: to be a painter. 'Mr Joyce Cary is an important and exciting writer; there's no doubt about that. To use Tennyson's phrase, he is a Lord of Language ... if you like rich writing full of gusto and accurate original character drawing, you will get it from The Horse's Mouth.' John Betjeman, Daily Herald

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• Verlag: HarperPerennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0060920211
• ISBN 13: 9780060920210
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368