The Crystal World (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: J. G. Ballard
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: The Cameroon Republic in West Africa
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Voyages, Science or scientists, Mysteries, Jungles or rain forests, Rivers or waterways, Adventure, Catholics or Catholic Church, Microbiology, Priests
- Locales: Cameroon
Characters Discussed
Dr. Edward Sanders, the assistant director of a leper hospital. A gray-haired, unkempt man of forty, he has spent fifteen years in Africa, ten at the leper hospital. Uneasy because of a mysterious letter from his former mistress, Suzanne Clair, Sanders goes to Mont Royal to check on her. There, he risks death from violent men as well as from a rapidly spreading plague that crystallizes all living things. Although he escapes with the help of a jeweled cross, he eventually returns to the crystal forest, where he had for the first time felt whole.
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