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Brings together, in one volume, the trilogy - Carnival, The Infinite Rehearsal and The Four Banks of the River of Space.

We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying? In The Ghost of Memory, the internationally acclaimed novelist, Wilson Harris, poses these and other questions in a chameleon fiction that explores the blurred boundaries between our waking and dream lives.

Widely regarded as one of the giants of contemporary Caribbean literature, Wilson Harris's novel, The Mask of the Beggar, is an utterly original - and at times quite breathtaking - inquiry into the roots of consciousness and the cross-cultural realities and mythologies that have come to dominate the making of, and the nature of, art. The Mask of the Beggar is based on the disguise Odysseus adopts on returning to his kingdom in Ithaca, but the mythologies and civilisations explored go way beyond this premise. Pre-Columbian imageries continually resurface and characters as diverse as Van Gogh, Dorian Gray, Cortez and Goethe make appearances in Harris's latest meditation on the timelessness of art and creative impulse.

Wilson Harris, best known for his novels including "The Palace of the Peacock", and "Jonestown", has been writing fiction and non-fiction since the 1960s. This volume collects together a comprehensive selection of his essays, interviews and lectures, from the 1960s to the late 1990s, making available his ideas on subjects including: the cultural dynamics of language, literature and identity; the role of fable and myth in the Caribbean literary imagination; the fictional work of those including Faulkner, Jean Rhys, Ralph Ellison and Edgar Allan Poe; and religious and political legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora. The volume is divided into four thematic sections which parallel Harris's development as a writer and guide the reader through his work. It comes with an introduction by Andrew Bundy, providing historical and contextual details, and a full bibliography of Harris's work.