[The Carnival Trilogy 01] • The Carnival Trilogy

This volume, introduced by the author, brings together three novels first published separately.

'The trilogy comprises *Carnival* (1985), *The Infinite Rehearsal* (1987) and *The Four Banks of the River of Space *(1990), novels linked by metaphors borrowed from theatre, traditional carnival itself and literary mythology. The characters make Odyssean voyages through time and space, witnessing and re-enacting the calamitous history of mankind, sometimes assuming sacrificial roles in an attempt to save modern civilisation from self-destruction.' *Independent on Sunday*

'*The Four Banks of the River of Space* is a kind of quantum *Odyssey*... in which the association of ideas is not logical but... a 'magical imponderable dreaming'. The dreamer is Anselm, another of Harris's alter egos, like Everyman Masters in *Carnival *and Robin Redbreast Glass in *The Infinite Rehearsal*... Together, they represent one of the most remarkable fictional achievements in the modern canon.' *Listener*