The Carnival trilogy - Wilson Harris

This volume, introduced by the author, brings together three novels first published separately. Reviewing in the Listener the last to appear, Brian Morton wrote: 'The Four Banks of the River of Space is a kind of quantum Odyssey . . . in which the association of ideas is not logical but . . . a 'magical imponderable dreaming'. The dreamer is Anselm, another of Harris's alter egos, like Everyman Masters in Carnival and Robin Redbreast Glass in The Infinite Rehearsal, the first two novels in this astonishing trilogy. Together, they represent one of the most remarkable fictional achievements in the modern canon.'