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Original Title:	The Horse's Mouth
ISBN:	0940322196 (ISBN13: 9780940322196)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The First Trilogy #3

The Horse's Mouth (The First Trilogy #3)

Joyce Cary

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 1244 Users | 148 Reviews

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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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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.

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Gulley Jimson is a starving artist in the 1930s (maybe the 40s), who consistently borrows and steals money from those around him to help keep him fed and with art supplies. Not only does he seem to have trouble paying anyone back but he himself seems to find his actions reasonable at all times because they are in the name of art. With his constant lack of decorum and respect for other's feelings and property, Gulley manages to constantly get him self into situations of questionable legality,

I was walking by the Thames. Half-past morning on an autumn day. Sun in a mist. Like an orange in a fried fish shop. All bright below. Low tide, dusty water and a crooked bar of straw, chicken-boxes, dirt and oil from mud to mud. Like a viper swimming in skim milk. The old serpent, symbol of nature and love. Five windows light the caverned man ; through one he breathes the airThrough one hears music of the spheres ; through one can lookAnd see small portions of the eternal world.The sheer beauty

As an artist/author I am very interested in books about artists acts of creation. There are a lot of books written by lovers of art who describe the act of painting, but dont capture what is going on in the artists heart and soul during the act of painting. Joyce Cary captured it in The Horses Mouthand captured it as well as in any other book that I know of.I believe he was able to do this because he was an artist who tried to make a go of it in Paris in his early years. Realizing he didnt have

I loved this book: it was a window into the mind of a modern artist and (along with The Shock of the New it changed the way I looked at and understood modern art forever. It's too long since I read it to write a proper review, I should read it again!



I found this novel both brilliant and boring. The brilliance appears in flashes throughout. The narrator is an original character, low and high all at once, completely incorrigible, much like Roth's Mickey Sabbath (or vice versa). Cary also uses language marvelously. I don't know if it's a matter of Cary's style being copied so much, but after a while the prose, the observations, the personality come to seem more relentless than brilliant. And more pretentious, as well. I wanted a respite from

Carys The Horses Mouth is the Portrait of the Artist as a middle-aged man. A real artist, not a writer. The afterword notes this a comic novel, but Gulley is often near despair(Wright, 351). Joyce Cary impersonates the artist, rather as Faulkner does the psychopathic I in the third of his trilogy, The Mansion. (For most of the novel, Mink Snopes is in prison for murder, dreaming of getting out and killingand by the end of the novel, youre with him.) Joyce Carys Gulley Jimson is far from a