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Many readers know Lawrence Durrell as a famed author of a sexy and sexy Alexandria Quartet. However, this smashing book contains a best of Durrell's exquisite transport writing. It is collected here for a initial time in a singular volume and offers a possibility to rediscover a author as one of a good transport writers of a twentieth century. Durrell's passionate, evocative letter about his travels—in sold a Greek islands—is a undying scrutiny of how landscapes figure a experience. This collection also re-creates a universe where a struggling author or artist could buy a cliff-side residence on Corfu for a profession and start to invent himself as a male of letters while descending in adore with an visitor though forever interesting culture. The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader combines a merits of good shun reading and critical novel and will seductiveness fans of Durrell, fans of Greek islands, and lovers of transport writing.
Durrell, a twentieth-century British author dignified by cultured readers, was a author of a Alexandria Quartet, a novel cycle named for a alluring and puzzling Egyptian city in that it was set. He also trafficked avidly and hence determined a repute as a shining transport writer. Evidence is done petrify in this anthology, in that excerpts from Durrell's book-length travelogues are collected with brief pieces published independently. His sold adore for a islands of a Mediterranean shines from a pages, and such passion impels transport novel to a fullest purpose: to stir a reader's imagination and longing. Durrell's elemental truth about transport is declared, and a tinge for this whole anthology is set, by a initial piece, "Landscape and Character," a 1960 letter creatively published in a New York Times Magazine--his view codified as "human beings are expressions of their landscape, though in sequence to hold a tip springs of a inhabitant hint we need a few moments of still with yourself." Quiet time with this book is a possess good reward. Brad Hooper
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"In poetry now ceremonious, now louche, it well captures a suggestion of that place and does so with a munificence of imagination singular in any writing, including 'fiction."'
By Lawrence Durrell
The Lawrence Durrell Reader is a collection of his best transport writing. All a entries regard a Mediterranean World and quite a islands--Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus and Sicily, with Provence and Delphi thrown in for continental balance. The collection celebrates what Durrell favourite to call "Spirit of Place." It might seem spasmodic antiquated as we pierce into a final decadance of condominium development. It might seem sentimental in an age where beachfront hotels supply "animation" for a patrons. But from a merriment of Prospero's Cell to a unhappiness of Bitter Lemons, Durrell will tell we all we need to know about a places he looked for in himself.
Less Than a Shadow
Ignore a disastrous review. Lawrence Durrell is zero like Gerald Durrell (who we also admire), and this is a book of transport essays and his transport books. It isn't a guidebook, so we can frequency protest about it not being a guidebook! That's like shopping pig and angry it isn't chicken.
I find Durrell's novella heavy-going, yet we do know many people suffer it, including my wife. But his transport essay is unequivocally accessible, beautifully lyrical, and unequivocally does plead that spirir of place. we write a lot about Greece myself, and so have examination a good series of books about Greece. Lawrence Durrell's are among a many beguiling that there are, quite a ones about Corfu and Rhodes. To get all together in one collection like this is a genuine treat.
I suspicion about pretension for my examination and could not consider anything else though "boring".
Barely could examination 1/3 of it. we unequivocally adore his younger brother's( Gerald Durrell) books that's since we bought this one to see what kind of a author Lowrence is.
If it's a manual it isn't most usefull since it was created prolonged time ago!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1449867 in Books
- Published on: 2004-04-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 375 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Durrell, a twentieth-century British author dignified by cultured readers, was a author of a Alexandria Quartet, a novel cycle named for a alluring and puzzling Egyptian city in that it was set. He also trafficked avidly and hence determined a repute as a shining transport writer. Evidence is done petrify in this anthology, in that excerpts from Durrell's book-length travelogues are collected with brief pieces published independently. His sold adore for a islands of a Mediterranean shines from a pages, and such passion impels transport novel to a fullest purpose: to stir a reader's imagination and longing. Durrell's elemental truth about transport is declared, and a tinge for this whole anthology is set, by a initial piece, "Landscape and Character," a 1960 letter creatively published in a New York Times Magazine--his view codified as "human beings are expressions of their landscape, though in sequence to hold a tip springs of a inhabitant hint we need a few moments of still with yourself." Quiet time with this book is a possess good reward. Brad Hooper
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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"In poetry now ceremonious, now louche, it well captures a suggestion of that place and does so with a munificence of imagination singular in any writing, including 'fiction."'
By Lawrence Durrell
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16 of 16 people found a following examination helpful.
Compared to many transport writing, should be 6 stars
By David Chacko
The Lawrence Durrell Reader is a collection of his best transport writing. All a entries regard a Mediterranean World and quite a islands--Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus and Sicily, with Provence and Delphi thrown in for continental balance. The collection celebrates what Durrell favourite to call "Spirit of Place." It might seem spasmodic antiquated as we pierce into a final decadance of condominium development. It might seem sentimental in an age where beachfront hotels supply "animation" for a patrons. But from a merriment of Prospero's Cell to a unhappiness of Bitter Lemons, Durrell will tell we all we need to know about a places he looked for in himself.
Less Than a Shadow
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Fine Travel Writing on Greece and Elsewhere
By Mike Gerrard
Ignore a disastrous review. Lawrence Durrell is zero like Gerald Durrell (who we also admire), and this is a book of transport essays and his transport books. It isn't a guidebook, so we can frequency protest about it not being a guidebook! That's like shopping pig and angry it isn't chicken.
I find Durrell's novella heavy-going, yet we do know many people suffer it, including my wife. But his transport essay is unequivocally accessible, beautifully lyrical, and unequivocally does plead that spirir of place. we write a lot about Greece myself, and so have examination a good series of books about Greece. Lawrence Durrell's are among a many beguiling that there are, quite a ones about Corfu and Rhodes. To get all together in one collection like this is a genuine treat.
0 of 10 people found a following examination helpful.
boring
By Eva Ava
I suspicion about pretension for my examination and could not consider anything else though "boring".
Barely could examination 1/3 of it. we unequivocally adore his younger brother's( Gerald Durrell) books that's since we bought this one to see what kind of a author Lowrence is.
If it's a manual it isn't most usefull since it was created prolonged time ago!
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