Paperback. Grey cover with black title.

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This is one of the most original and powerful novels I’ve read, a real classic. But I think it is important not to see the protagonist as “an artist”: he has only that part of the artist that gets as far as inspiration – the artistic impulse. He never sees anything through to actual creation beyond an early arguably pornographic work, possibly unfinished. The rest is a tragi-comic abuse of a life and the lives of others in favour of a madness that cannot be confused with the rigour, dedication, skill, tenacity of real art. But Cary explores all that superbly.

Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. His most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse’s Mouth.