The Horse’s Mouth (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Cary
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: London
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Values, 1930’s, Creative process, London, Painting or painters, Money, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Collecting or collectors, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Gulley Jimson, an aging unconventional artist, ex-jailbird, and occasional thief who has sudden grandiose inspirations for big paintings on such subjects as the Fall and the Creation but who, dogged by ill luck, cannot manage to finish them. His only paintings anyone wants are nudes of Sara Monday, which he did years ago and which he cannot get from her or from Hickson, who obtained most of them. After Gulley accidentally kills Sara, he returns home and paints furiously, trying to finish the Creation before his arrest. In a fall from his scaffold, he...
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