Prospero's Cell [electronic resource]
Durrell, Lawrence2012
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Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.'New York Times
In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell spent four transformative years on the island jewel of Corfu, fascinated by the idyllic natural beauty and blood-stained ancient history within its rocky shores.
While his brother Gerald collected animals as a budding naturalist - later fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals and filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - Lawrence fished, drank and befriended the local villagers.
After World War II catapulted him back into a turmoiled world, Durrell never forgot the wonders of Corfu. Prospero's Cell is his magical evocation of the blazing Aegean landscape, brimming with memories of the places and people that changed him forever.
'Some writers reinvent their language; others the world. Durrell did both.' André Aciman
'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' Victoria Hislop
'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' Richard Holmes
'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' Elif Shafak
'Corfu could not have found a fitter chronicler.'Daily Telegraph
'A charming idyll ... Delightful.' Sunday Times
Main title:
Prospero's Cell [electronic resource] / Lawrence Durrell
Author:
Durrell, Lawrence, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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 1958. 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.
ISBN:
9780571265213
Language:
English
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BRN:
2793214
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