Lamming, George (Vol. 2) - Lamming, George 1927–
Lamming, George 1927–
West Indian novelist and poet, author of In the Castle of My Skin and Season of Adventure.
George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. In order to ensure that he is unimpeded by the traditional novelistic conventions, he brings a private vision to bear on time and space, uniting them into an inseparable entity and islanding this entity in his own fertile imagination.
His first novel, "In the Castle of My Skin," written in prose that was dazzlingly original, described a journey from childhood to adolescence; his second, "The Emigrants," was the work of a brilliant but detached narrator accompanying a shipload of nomadic West Indians to Britain. "Of Age and Innocence" and "Season of Adventure," his third and fourth books, almost defeat the reader with the sheer density of their prose, but they were occasionally seeded with...
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