The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 1: Underground to Otherground

Kenneth White's trilogy of books, Incandescent Limbo, Letters from Gourgounel, and Travels in the Drifting Dawn, reflect the beginnings of his radical and exhilarating figure in modern literature. These books explore his intellectual nomadism, autoanalysis, and resourcing in various contexts, making him famous overnight in France and a turning point in the contemporary situation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 18 February 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Incandescent Limbo, Letters from Gourgounel, and Travels in the Drifting Dawn are three books that reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature. Incandescent Limbo recounts White's years in Paris, where he explores a labyrinthine underworld and traces the birth of the writer as an intellectual nomad. Letters from Gourgounel takes us from the city to a wild part of south-eastern France, where White undertakes a resourcing in an elementary context. Travels in the Drifting Dawn begins the intellectual nomad's moves across territories and cultures, passing through the London underground of the sixties, the ground of his native Scotland and neighbouring Ireland, and accumulating experience on different levels in France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, and North Africa. The trilogy is not only a summary of White's itinerary in its initial stages, but it also opens up a whole intellectual and cultural programme.

Weight: 492g
Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399511124