Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St Edmund's School, Canterbury. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1938. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, about Rhodes, and Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet, which he completed in southern France where he settled permanently in 1957. Between the Quartet and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps. Caesar's Vast Ghost, his reflections on the history and culture of Provence, including a late flowering of poems, appeared a few days before his death in Sommières in 1990.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 266 pages. This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero's Cell, and a deca de before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assor tment of English travellers come ashore from a cruise ship to explore the island and in particular to examine a dangerous local labyrinth. They include an extro vert painter, a spiritualist, a Protestant spinster with a fox terrier, an antiq uarian peer and minor poet, a soldier with guilty memories of the Cretan resista nce, a pretty convalescent and an eccentric married couple. To some extent the b ook is a roman à clef and Durrell's characters talk with great reality about th eir experiences, themselves and a certain psychological unease that has led most of them to embark on their journey. The climax is a disastrous visit to the lab yrinth, with its reported minotaur. The novel is a gripping piece of story-telli ng, full of atmosphere and the vivid first-hand writing about Mediterranean land scape and people of which Durrell was a master. Artikel-Nr. 6949c
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