The Horse's Mouth
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A blazing, irreverent portrait of the artist as a holy fool, The Horse's Mouth chronicles the misadventures of Gulley Jimson — aging, penniless, and magnificently unrepentant — a painter of visionary genius who will lie, steal, and beg in pursuit of a wall large enough to hold his next great masterpiece. Set in the grimy backstreets and smoky pubs of post-war London, Joyce Cary's 1944 novel presents a world where art is not a refined pursuit but a raw, compulsive hunger, and where its anti-hero's boundless creative drive collides spectacularly with a society that has no use for him. The concluding volume of Cary's celebrated First Trilogy, The Horse's Mouth is widely regarded as one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, a work that illuminates the tension between artistic vision and material reality with both savage wit and profound compassion. Cary channels Gulley's voice through an exuberant, stream-of-consciousness prose style laced with references to William Blake — whose poetry becomes a kind of spiritual manifesto for the incorrigible old rogue. Rich in philosophical depth and comedic bravado, it leaves the reader asking whether true creative freedom is genius, madness, or simply the refusal to surrender.
Author: Joyce Cary
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A blazing, irreverent portrait of the artist as a holy fool, The Horse's Mouth chronicles the misadventures of Gulley Jimson — aging, penniless, and magnificently unrepentant — a painter of visionary genius who will lie, steal, and beg in pursuit of a wall large enough to hold his next great masterpiece. Set in the grimy backstreets and smoky pubs of post-war London, Joyce Cary's 1944 novel presents a world where art is not a refined pursuit but a raw, compulsive hunger, and where its anti-hero's boundless creative drive collides spectacularly with a society that has no use for him. The concluding volume of Cary's celebrated First Trilogy, The Horse's Mouth is widely regarded as one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, a work that illuminates the tension between artistic vision and material reality with both savage wit and profound compassion. Cary channels Gulley's voice through an exuberant, stream-of-consciousness prose style laced with references to William Blake — whose poetry becomes a kind of spiritual manifesto for the incorrigible old rogue. Rich in philosophical depth and comedic bravado, it leaves the reader asking whether true creative freedom is genius, madness, or simply the refusal to surrender.