Annotation. "Wilson Harris, Guyanese novelist, poet and surveyor, is known for his experimental and complex fiction. His is a unique and vivid perspective, and students of West Indian literature often find his fiction daunting, but it is nevertheless richly rewarding. Harris's voice is distinctive and unparalleled among West Indian writers, and indeed, as Joyce Sparer Adler shows, through his novels he engages in the ongoing literary and philosophical dialogue of the ages." "Adler's essays on Harris, originally published in various journals, are collected here for the first time and now available to a wider audience. The collection includes her previously unpublished essay on Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville, and a substantial autobiographical essay by Wilson Harris."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.