Durrell And The City

Author : Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611474534

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Durrell and the City by Donald P. Kaczvinsky Pdf

Durrell and the City commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Alexandria Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical consideration of Durrell's urban landscapes, from the London of his early novels to Avignon during World War II in his last great series, while focusing on the place that made him famous--the city of Alexandria--in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.

Author : Michael Haag
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782833307

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The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag Pdf

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the family, is the ideal narrator, drawing on diaries, letters and unpublished autobiographical fragments. The Durrells of Corfu describes the family's upbringing in India and the crisis that brought them to England and then Greece. It recalls the genuine characters they encountered on Corfu - Theodore the biologist, the taxi driver Spiro Halikiopoulos and the prisoner Kosti - as well as the visit of American writer Henry Miller. And Haag has unearthed the story of how the Durrells left Corfu, including Margo's and Larry's last-minute escapes before the War. An extended epilogue looks at the emergence of Larry as a world famous novelist, and Gerry as a naturalist and champion of endangered species, as well as the lives of the rest of the family, their friends and other animals. The book is illustrated with family photos from the Gerald Durrell Archive, many of them reproduced here for the first time.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453261453

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Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

From the olive trees of southern France to Gnostic cults in Egypt, a man and his lovers are invented and reinvented in this first volume of a great literary adventure. For British doctor Bruce Drexel, a return to Provence is bittersweet. Here, at a rustic chateau, he once fell in love with Sylvie, the Frenchwoman who would become his wife, and befriended her brother, Piers. The three made up a peculiar, potent ménage for years until Sylvie’s descent into madness and Piers’s suicide. As Drexel attends to Piers’s affairs, he becomes steeped in the memories of a spiritually transformational trip to Egypt; the band of intellectual confederates who used to be his intimate friends; and a three-sided love that became his reason for being. So begins Monsieur, the masterful first entry of Durrell’s Avignon Quintet, an infinite regress of memory and imagination that challenges the formal conventions of fiction.

Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781527528499

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Re-reading The Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Studies 8) by Richard Pine Pdf

Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet is regarded as the central work in his fiction. It has provoked critical commentary ever since the appearance of its individual volumes – Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive and Clea (1959) and the publication in a one-volume edition in 1962. Scores of Master’s and PhD dissertations have been written since the 1960s on this most compelling and provocative novel. Today, The Alexandria Quartet stimulates critical discussion in works addressing the city, Durrell’s representation of Alexandria, the theory of relativity, the role of memory, the recurring feature of the doppelgänger and the presence of the Gothic uncanny; his frequent references to D.H. Lawrence; his treatment of women characters; his interest in Gnosticism; and his own description of the Quartet as “a strange mixture of sex and the secret service”. This volume of essays addresses all these themes, and brings together the mature work of four scholars on this central work of Durrell’s fiction, together with two essays on its sequels, Tunc-Nunquam (1968-70) and The Avignon Quintet (1974-85).

Author : Anna Lillios
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910764

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Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World by Anna Lillios Pdf

Novelist Lawrence Durrell's fondness for his adopted homeland of Greece led him to declare "I'm a Greek," and profoundly influenced his work. Attempting to capture the scope of the Greek world's relationship with Durrell's life and work, Lilios (English, U. of Central Florida) presents 22 papers that approach the topic from a range of perspectives. After a number of reminiscences of Durrell by family and friends, a set of essays are organized by place, examining Durrell's relationship with Corfu, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Cyprus. The remaining essays are grouped according to theme discussing such issues as the influence of myth and other "Greek inspirations" on Durrell's novels, poems, and other work. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453261514

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The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

DIVDIVWho will survive the Labyrinth of Crete?/divDIV /divDIVA group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete’s famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent girl, and the mysterious Lord Gracean. The group is prepared for a trifling day of sightseeing and maybe even a glimpse of the legendary Minotaur, but instead is suddenly stuck in a nightmare when a rockslide traps them deep within the labyrinth. Who among the passengers will make it out alive? And for those who emerge, will anything ever be the same?/div/div

Author : Rony Alfandary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429782398

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A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet by Rony Alfandary Pdf

A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return focuses on the dialogue created by literature and psychoanalysis in an individual’s quest to explore existential issues, such as a sense of belonging to a homeland and a recurring sense of the Uncanny (das unheimliche). Rony Alfandary explores Durrell’s attempt to recreate a sense of belonging to a homeland, which perhaps never existed but can be retraced and reinvented through writing. This book studies some issues present in Durrell’s work: the connection between biographical and fictional elements in the study of literature the influence of early Freudian theoretical themes upon the writer later influences including post-modern and hermeneutic theories The life and work of Lawrence Durrell can serve as a prototype of a man’s quest for meaning, in a world caught in turmoil in the period between and during WW2. The author’s psychoanalytic exploration of the work and its relevance to human experience today, shows how the themes Durrell dealt with remain relevant. Alfandary highlights the ways in which his usage of several author narrative styles exemplifies the divergent and often contradictory nature of "Truth", emerging rather as multi-layered, multi-voiced and often torn sense of human subjectivity. A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return demonstrates Durrell’s strong influence by psychoanalytic thought and will appeal to both psychoanalytic and literary scholars.

Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349234127

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Lawrence Durrell: The Mindscape by Richard Pine Pdf

In this second volume of his study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell (following the appearance in 1988 of The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind and Morals from Brummell to Durrell Richard Pine examines in detail Durrell's unique contribution to the development of the modern novel, concentrating in particular on the evidence of Durrell's private notebooks and diaries. Pine's twenty-year friendship with Burrell has resulted in an intimate portrait of a singular mind whose extraordinary career, both as a writer and as a British colonial official, is hallmarked by the creation of 'the Heraldic Universe', an imaginative realm within which the artist reigns supreme.

Author : James M. Clawson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611478471

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Durrell Re-read by James M. Clawson Pdf

Significant contributions to twentieth-century British literature, Lawrence Durrell’s major works (1938–1985) are nevertheless read in a way that differs from the author’s plan for them. This study argues for the consideration of Durrell’s twelve major novels as a unitary whole.

Author : Gordon Bowker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312172257

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Through the Dark Labyrinth by Gordon Bowker Pdf

Traces the life of Durrell, author of "The Alexandria Quartet," and discusses the influence of Eastern religions on his work

Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141971315

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The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell Pdf

'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.' Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better than a small zoo - a bigger one! So Durrell heads off to South America to collect more animals. Along windswept Patagonian shores and in Argentine tropical forests, he encounters a range of animals from penguins to elephant seals. But as always, he is drawn to those rare and interesting creatures which he hopes will thrive and breed in captivity . . . Told with enthusiasm and without sentimentality, Gerald Durrell's The Whispering Land is an often hilarious but always inspiring foray into the South American wilds.

Author : Michael Haag
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300104154

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Alexandria by Michael Haag Pdf

This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries, letters, and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants, and its literary characters. Located on the coast of Africa yet rich in historical associations with Western civilization, Alexandria was home to an exotic variety of people whose cosmopolitan families had long been rooted in the commerce and the culture of the entire Mediterranean world. Alexandria famously excited the imaginations of writers, and Haag folds intimate accounts of E. M. Forster, Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and Lawrence Durrell into the story of its inhabitants. He recounts the city’s experience of the two world wars and explores the communities that gave Alexandria its unique flavor: the Greek, the Italian, and the Jewish. The book deftly harnesses the sexual and emotional charge of cosmopolitan life in this extraordinary city, and highlights the social and political changes over the decades that finally led to Nasser’s Egypt.

Author : Bruce Redwine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527578920

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The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell by Bruce Redwine Pdf

Lawrence Durrell’s position as one of the twentieth century’s leading novelists is continually being enlarged and revised. This book presents unusual and unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing, his family relationships, his biographer Michael Haag, and his affinity with such diverse writers as Rilke and Virgil. In particular, it offers an insight into Durrell’s emotions and sensibilities in elaborating his Sicilian Carousel and a penetrating and totally unique reading of Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet in the light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.

Author : Peter James Hudson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226459110

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Bankers and Empire by Peter James Hudson Pdf

Introduction : Dark finance -- Colonialism's methods -- Rogue bankers -- The bankers' occupation -- Empire's regulation -- American expansion -- Imperial government -- Odious debt -- Conclusion : Racial capitalism's crisis

Author : Illinois. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065737433

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois by Illinois. Supreme Court Pdf