Thunder Returning

Thunder Returning
Mittelholzer, Edgar
London : Secker & Warburg, 1961
240 p. ; 21 cm

Second in the trilogy, Latticed Echoes, Thunder Returning represents Mittelholzer’s continuing interest in experimentation. In his foreword, he expresses hope “…that readers would be familiar with the leitmotiv as used in Wagner’s operas, especially The Ring…” but differentiates his use of the device from Wagner’s. (The leitmotiv in Wagner’s music is a recurrent, signature musical figure that is associated with various characters and situations.) Mittelholzer argues here that his use of the device is as a “symbol adjunct”, which is not part of the narrative. The plot concerns two women pregnant by the husband of one of them.

This copy is inscribed in ink, HD Carberry.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9320.9.M5 T48 1961

More images from the H.D. Carberry Collection.

To search for this book at other libraries, use WorldCat.