The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22nd, 1997
Wilson Harris may be the most imaginative writer now living. The worlds in which Harris's work takes place are more simple than how Western society generally regards reality, and this factor makes those worlds difficult to accept. Harris explores the world of the soul, which he calls "the infinite rehearsal," where objects of new beauty announce the arrival of the sacred.
It is the mark of the new that we never know what it will be until it arrives. Of one thing only we can be sure, that it is unpredictable and is never the outcome of existing "trends." The wind that bloweth where it listeth ...
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