SOURCE: Paris, Bruce King. Review of Selected Essays of Wilson Harris, by Wilson Harris. World Literature Today 74, no. 3 (summer 2000): 569.

In the following review, Paris offers a positive assessment of Selected Essays of Wilson Harris, noting that the collection provides a useful introduction to Harris's work.

After a useful map of Guyana locating places mentioned in Wilson Harris's fiction, Selected Essays consists of Andrew Bundy's thirty-four-page introduction and helpful prefaces to each of the four parts of the volume. There is also a concluding bibliography prepared by Hena Maes-Jelinek. In between are twenty-one essays, talks, and novel excerpts by Harris and two concluding notes by Bundy and Maes-Jelinek.

Those who are puzzled by Harris's difficult novels may not always find clarification in Bundy's preface, which in places uses Harris's metaphoric vocabulary and which assumes that there is still much intellectual belief in Jung, archetypes, and myths. Bundy, however, gets...