Уилсон Харрис: Black Marsden: A Tabula Rasa Comedy

Wilson Harris s tenth novel, first published in 1972, is set in Edinburgh but, like much of his subsequent work, bridges continents by its imaginative reach.

Doctor Black Marsden , tramp, shaman, and conjurer, is an ambivalent Merlin-figure representing both the hero s personal (and archetypal) shadow, and the creative, magus-like activity of the author himself. Michael Gilkes, «Journal of Commonwealth Literature»

… my many visits to Scotland, and books I have read, have given me the sensation of a tone or inner vibrancy that may be due to the languages (English, Scottish, Gaelic) that are present in the subconscious imagination of sensitive Scots… [These] make for the cross-culturality (not mono-cultural) that came into play in Black Marsden. Wilson Harris, 2008