Black Marsden

By Wilson Harris

Book Overview

Wilson Harriss tenth novel first published in 1972 is set in Edinburgh but like much of his subsequent work bridges continents by its imaginative reach.

Doctor Black Marsden tramp shaman and conjurer is an ambivalent Merlin-figure representing both the heros personal (and archetypal) shadow and the creative magus-like activity of the author himself. Michael Gilkes Journal of Commonwealth Literature

... my many visits to Scotland and books I have read have given me the sensation of a tone or inner vibrancy that may be due to the languages (English Scottish Gaelic) that are present in the subconscious imagination of sensitive Scots... These] make for the cross-culturality (not mono-cultural) that came into play in Black Marsden. Wilson Harris 2008

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571295983
• ISBN13: 9780571295982
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Faber Finds
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"