Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World

2004
Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World

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  • Author: Anna Lillios
  • Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
  • ISBN: 9781575910765
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

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).

The World of Lawrence Durrell

1962
The World of Lawrence Durrell

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  • Author: Harry Thornton Moore
  • Publisher: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University P
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Authors, English
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

Seventeen interpretative articles about the work of Durrell.

The Greek Islands

2011-12-15
The Greek Islands

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  • Author: Lawrence Durrell
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 0571265251
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 233

Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Incandescent.' André Aciman 'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' Victoria Hislop 'Nobody knows the Greek islands like Durrell.' New York Times White-washed houses drenched in pink bougainvillea; dazzling seascapes and rugged coastlines; colourful harbours in quaint fishing villages; shady olive and cypress groves; terraces bathed in the Aegean sun ... The Greek islands conjure up a treasure-chest of images - but nobody brings them to life as vividly as the legendary travel writer Lawrence Durrell. It was during his youth in Corfu - which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals, later filmed as The Durrells In Corfu - that his love affair with the Mediterranean began. Now, in this glorious tour of the Greek islands, he weaves evocative descriptions of these idyllic landscapes with insights into their ancient history, and shares luminous personal memories of his time in the local communities. No traveller to Greece or admirer of Durrell's magic should miss it. 'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' Jan Morris 'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' Richard Holmes 'Like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.' Time

The Greek Islands

2002
The Greek Islands

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  • Author: Lawrence Durrell
  • Publisher: Gardners Books
  • ISBN: 9780571214266
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

As every reader of Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, and especially the islands of Greece. This captivating and highly unusual text, originally conceived as a picture book and now reset in paperback format, weaves together evocative descriptions, history and myth with Durrell's personal reminiscences. No traveller to Greece or admirer of the genius of Durrell should miss it.

The Greek Islands

1980
The Greek Islands

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  • Author: Lawrence Durrell
  • Publisher: Penguin Group
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Drawing upon personal experiences and repeated visits, Durrell explores the landscape, history, mythology, architecture and archaeological heritage of the Greek Islands.

The Dark Labyrinth

2012-06-12
The Dark Labyrinth

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  • Author: Lawrence Durrell
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • ISBN: 1453261516
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

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

Prospero's Cell

2012-06-12
Prospero's Cell

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  • Author: Lawrence Durrell
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • ISBN: 1453261656
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 173

From a member of the real-life family portrayed in The Durrells in Corfu, this memoir of the idyllic Greek island is “among the best books ever written” (The New York Times). Before Lawrence Durrell became a renowned novelist, poet, and travel writer, he spent four youthful years on Corfu, an island jewel with beauty to match the long and fascinating history within its rocky shores. While his brother, Gerald, was collecting animals as a budding naturalist, Lawrence fished, drank, and lived with the natives in the years leading up to World War II, sheltered from the tumult that was engulfing Europe—until finally he could ignore the world no longer. Durrell left for Alexandria, to serve his country as a wartime diplomat, but never forgot the wonders of Corfu. In this “brilliant” journey through that idyllic time and place, Durrell returns to the land that made him so happy, blending his love of history with memories of his adventures there (The Economist). Like the blue Aegean, Prospero’s Cell is deep and crystal clear, offering a perfect view straight to the heart of a nation.

Reflections on a Marine Venus

2012-06-12
Reflections on a Marine Venus

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  • Author: Lawrence Durrell
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • ISBN: 1453261672
  • Category : Travel
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 205

After World War II, an Englishman seeks peace on an ancient Greek island in this “remarkable” travel memoir (The New York Times). Islomania is a disease not yet classified by Western science, but to those afflicted its symptoms are all too recognizable. Men like Lawrence Durrell are struck by a powerful need to live on the ancient islands of the Mediterranean, where the clear blue Aegean is always within reach. After four tortuous wartime years in Egypt, Durrell finds a post on the island of Rhodes, where the British are attempting to return Greece to the sleepy peace it enjoyed in the ’30s. From his first morning, when a dip in the frigid sea jolts him awake for what feels like the first time in years, Durrell breathes in the fullest joys of island life, meeting villagers, eating exotic food, and throwing back endless bottles of ouzo, as though the war had never happened at all. The charms of his stay there still resonate today, for the pleasures of Greece are older than history itself.

The Colossus of Maroussi

2010-05-18
The Colossus of Maroussi

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  • Author: Henry Miller
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing
  • ISBN: 0811218570
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 241

Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”

Prospero's Cell

1978
Prospero's Cell

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  • Author: Lawrence Durrell
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Corfu
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 152

For several years, Lawrence Durrell made his home on the Greek island of Corfu. Wanting to record the Ionian magic of the place before it was destroyed by the threat of war, he penned his reflections in the form of Prospero's Cell. Here, he evokes an atmosphere of happiness and radiance.