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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.
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The Horse's Mouth is a 1944 novel by Anglo-Irish writer Joyce Cary, the third in his First Trilogy, whose first two books are Herself Surprised (1941) and To Be a Pilgrim (1942).
The Horse’s Mouth, comic novel by Joyce Cary, published in 1944. It was the third volume of a trilogy, which also included Herself Surprised (1941) and To Be a Pilgrim (1942), and was a best seller. The book’s protagonist, Gulley Jimson, is an iconoclastic artist who is consumed with the creative.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Joyce Cary: The Horse’s Mouth. This is the third and by far the best-known of Cary’s first trilogy. It is the best-known one as it is narrated by Gulley Jimson, an outrageous, scurrilous, dishonest artist. It is also the best-known because it was made into an excellent film, starring Alec Guinness.
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.
Jun 3, 2002 · Cary’s novel appeared in 1944, drawing on prewar bohemian life, and is notably sharp on the mundane realities of survival on the breadline, in the vein of Orwell’s social reportage, while vague in plotting.
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.
- Joyce Cary
