SICILIAN CAROUSEL. (1977). Lawrence Durrell. ****.About ten years ago, my wife and I took a ten-day trip to Sicily that was much like the trip described by Durrell in this book. It was a bus tour, and stopped at essentially the same cities as the Carousel tour. As Durrell commented, ten days...
I always get a feeling of anticipation whenever I begin one of Lawrence Durrell’s works as I never know what new surprise will appear in his artistic writing. I’ve had this book for a long time, and never really appreciated it at the time as it was about Taoism, and so it has been sitting on the ...
(FROM MY BLOG) Israel is again accused of killing and otherwise abusing innocent civilians in its attempt to control the Gaza strip. Israeli commanders, according to today's New York Times, admit that people have been shot and houses destroyed unjustifiably, but claim that overall they have been...
I know it must be beautifully written, it's Durrell after all. But when I open this oversized paperback (sort of the love child of a coffee table book and a regular Penguin), my eyes are caught by the photos, and there I go drifting away, unable to read a thing. Although this is terrifically date...
Sent to Serbia to investigate the murder of a colleague, a British secret agent is caught in a life-and-death struggle between the Communists and a band of underground Royalists called the White Eagles. A 1950s spy novel from the author of The Alexandria Quartet.
This is a definitive edition of the collected poems of the author of 'The Alexandria Quartet' and 'The Avignon Quintet'. The volume is charged with Durrell's response to the 'spirit of place', which is one of his exceptional gifts as a writer.
This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero's Cell, and a decade before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers come ashore from a cruise shi...
Antrobus, the hero of Sauve Qui Peut and Stiff Upper Lip, is featured in this novel, and represents the epitome of that most British of institutions, the Foreign Office.
An omnibus edition of the five novels published by Durrell in a kaleidoscopic sequence between 1974 and 1985. The books are set mainly in Avignon and the ancient kingdom of Provence, though significant episodes in the quintet are set in the Egyptian desert, Venice, Paris, Vienna and Geneva.
Coming of epileptoid stock They tell the time without a clock. NONSENSE IS NEVER JUST NONSENSE; it is more like good sense with all the logic removed. At its highest point poetry makes use of nonsense in order to indicate a level of experience beyond the causality principle. You don’t quicken or ...
Ah! the brave new chrysadiamantine world of Charlock’s nuptial London! O world of delegated sympathies, of mysteries, of great achievements. The expensive cars that soothed away the roads moving like ointments; the clothes that fitted like second skins. And in the midst of it all the white wand, ...
Durrell’s work was widely praised, with his Quartet winning the greatest accolades for its rich style and bold use of multiple perspectives. Upon the Quartet’s completion, Life called it “the most discussed and widely admired serious fiction of our time.” Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912...
No? Well, it was dashed awkward for all concerned and Polk-Mowbray was almost forced to Take Steps at the end. “You probably remember Drage quite well: a strange, craggy Welsh Baptist with long curving arms as hairy as a Black Widow. A moody sort of chap. He had a strange way of gnashing his dent...
Leaving you, hills, we were unaware Or only as sleepwalkers are aware Of a key turned in the heart, a letter Posted under the door of an empty house; Now Matapan and her forebodings Became an identity, a trial of conduct, Rolled and unrolled by the surges Like a chart, mapped by a star, With this...
The creature was posted just before you arrived. Now of this fellow, Trevor Dovebasket (he was then assistant Military Attache), I have only this to say: it was clear that the youth was in league with the Devil. Some fearful Faustian compact had taken place. You could tell from his appearance—eye...
Durrell’s work was widely praised, with his Quartet winning the greatest accolades for its rich style and bold use of multiple perspectives. Upon the Quartet’s completion, Life called it “the most discussed and widely admired serious fiction of our time.” Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912...