Jan 3, 2010
The Guyana Quartet | The Guyana Quartet
At a glance:
- Author: Wilson Harris
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Setting: Guyana
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Mythological literature
- Subjects: Voyages, Blacks, Colonies or colonization, Race, Twentieth century, Nature, Other worlds, Virginity or virgins, Ethnic groups, Fantasy, Imagination, Antichrist figures, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Forests or forestry, Guyana or Guyanese people, India or East Indian people, Jungles or rain forests, Rivers or waterways
- Locales: Guyana
Characters Discussed
Palace of the Peacock, 1960
The Dreaming I, the narrator, a younger brother of Donne. He
accompanies Donne on the quest and participates in the mystical experience that unites the dead
and the living. He alone survives to tell the story.
Donne, an estate owner, the lifelong protector of the narrator. A
brown-skinned man, he is the captain of the crew that is traveling into the mountains to get
laborers for the estate he is building in the interior of Guyana. Donne is tough, decisive, and harsh.
His brutality toward his mistress,...
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