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in Norton Paperback Fiction  \nAfter Leaving Mr.MackenzieThe Collected Short StoriesGood Morning,MidnightQuartetVoyage in the DarkWide Sargasso Sea  \nWIDE  \nSARGASSOSEA  \nJean Rhys  \nIntroduction by Francis Wyndham  \nCopyright ◎1966 by Jean RhysFirst published as a Norton paperback 1982by arrangenent with Wallace Literary Agency.Inc.All rights reservedPrinted in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nRhys,Jean.  \nWide sargasso sea/Jean Rhys;introduction by Francis Wyndham  \np.cm.  \nI.Title.  \nPR6035.H6W5199291-34821823'912-dc20ISBN0-393-30880-4  \nW.W.Norton &Company,Inc.500 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10110www.wwnorton.com  \nW.W.Norton &Company Ltd.Castle House,75/76 Wells Street,London W1T 3QT  \n1234567890  \nINTRODUCTION  \nFrancis Wyndham  \nJEAN RHYS WAS BORN AT ROSEAU,Dominica,one ofthe Windward Islands,and spent her childhood there.Herfather was a Welsh doctor and her mother a Creole -that is,a white West Indian.At the age of sixteen she came to Eng-land,where she spent the First World War.Then she marrieda Dutch poet and for ten years lived a rootless,wandering lifeon the Continent,mainly in Paris and Vienna.This was dur-ing the 1920s,and the essence of the artist's life in Europe atthat time is contained in her first book,The Left Bank (Cape,1927),which was described on the dust-jacket as 'sketchesand studies of present-day Bohemian Paris'.In an enthusiasticpreface,Ford Madox Ford comments on 'a terrifying instinctand a terrific-an almost lurid!-passion for stating the caseof the underdog..?He goes on:'When I,lately,edited aperiodical,Miss Rhys sent in several communications withwhich I was immensely struck,and of which I published asmany as I could.What struck me on the technical side...was the singular instinct for form possessed by this young lady,an instinct for form being possessed by singularly few writers  \nJEAN RHYS  \nof English and by almost no English women writers.'There issomething patronizing about this preface (Ford was,in literalfact,her patron)but he must be credited with recognizing,soearly in her career,the main elements which (increasing inintensity as her art developed)were to place her among thepurest writers of our time.These are her ‘passion for statingthe case of the underdog'and her ‘singular instinct for form'-a rare,but necessary combination.Without the instinct,thepassion might so easily be either sentimental or sensational;without the passion,the instinct might lead to only formalbeauty;together,they result in original art,at the same timeexquisite and deeply disturbing.  \nIt is likely that Ford Madox Ford was somewhat takenaback by his protégée's next book,a novel published in Eng-land as Postures(Chatto &Windus,1928)and in the USA asQuartet (Simon &Schuster)-it is the American title thatMiss Rhys prefers.The character of H.J.Heidler,a cold-eyedanglicized German dilettante,may have been in part suggestedby Ford himself.In Quartet we find the first embodiment ofthe Jean Rhys heroine:for essentially the first four novels dealwith the same woman at different stages of her life,althoughher name and minor details of her circumstances alter fron₁volume to volune.Marya Zelli has been a chorus girl in Eng-land and is now(the year is 1926)adrift in Montparnasse witha charming,feckless Pole whom she has married.This aimless,passive existence is suddenly disrupted when her husband issent to prison.She is befriended by the Heidlers:a middle-aged picture-dealer and his very English,rather bossily ‘eman-cipated'wife.It is taken for granted by this couple that Maryashould become the husband's mistress.She is at first revoltedby hin,and then falls passionately in love with him:through-  \nWIDE SA R GASSO SE A  \nout she views him with a kind of hypnotized terror.The storydescribes the grisly ménage à trois that ensues(briskly broad-minded wife,selfish 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