Joyce Cary
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| Original Title: | The Horse's Mouth |
| ISBN: | 0940322196 (ISBN13: 9780940322196) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The First Trilogy #3 |
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The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.Be Specific About Based On Books The Horse's Mouth (The First Trilogy #3)
| Title | : | The Horse's Mouth (The First Trilogy #3) |
| Author | : | Joyce Cary |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | October 31st 1999 by NYRB Classics (first published 1944) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Classics. Art. Humor |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 1244 Users | 148 ReviewsAssessment Based On Books The Horse's Mouth (The First Trilogy #3)
Seemed like serendipity that I randomly chose this book from my shelf at the same time as listening to John Updike's "Seek My Face". Both books deal with art and the relationship between the artist and philosophy. The main character in this book is Gully Jimson, a well educated man who sees himself as an artistic genius but lives on the fringe of society and his real talent appears to be as a con man.The descriptions of world as he sees it are what makes this book special ....again I got theI have this cover, that used to express the book for me. I used to thrust this cover at my friends: That is beauty. That is love. Find them inside, too. It's about a down-and-out artist, in his delapidated age. Humane.
3.5*Gulley Jimson was quite a character but on the whole I felt that the humor in this book was more of the sort which made me smile inwardly than the sort which make me laugh aloud. Jimson indubitably was an artist but one who had gone off the rails sometime in his past. I loved the way that he was always describing the sky and clouds in terms of colors & shapes. What I found more melancholy was the fact that it seemed to me it was clear to him that his best work was behind him but he
I meet two friends every six weeks or so to discuss a particular book that the three of us have agreed to read. One of the many pleasures of such an arrangement is that you are sometimes encouraged by one of the other members of the group to tackle a novel that might otherwise have passed you by. I had never heard of Irish writer Joyce Cary or of his novel 'The Horse's Mouth' before it was suggested as potential reading material by one of my book group friends. I am so glad that my friend
3.5 StarsThe story of the last days of the artist Gully Jimson is by turns comedic and long-winded, sometimes pell-mell, and sometimes a bit shocking, at least by today's standards. Long sections held me pretty well entranced, while the beginning took a while for me to get into, and the ending seemed to last and last and last. The Horse's Mouth appears on the Guardian's list of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it has also been re-issued under the NYRB imprint, so obviously it hasn't been
I have read this but I ought to reread it since ALL that I remember is I liked it a lot. Why I do not remember. I remember it being humorous.
To blatantly namedrop, Tom Robbins suggested I read this as I had mentioned that I was reading An Artists Way of which he had not heard. He said the best book he had ever read of the artistic temperament was The Horses Mouth, now if Mr Robbins suggests one reads a book.. one does! I ordered it straight awayIt is a great tale of the trials of Gulley Jimson, who discovered, rather late on in life, that his role was to be a painter, he had tried to rebel against this family trait but to no avail
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