A smile in his mind's eye Morrison, Ray
A smile in his mind's eye,
c2005, 20050614, 2014, 2005, 2005-01-01
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Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990), author ofThe Alexandra Quartet, was a writer with a foot in two worlds. His childhood in India and life in France and Greece provided him with an ability to absorb many ...traditions, all of which are evident in his work. Proficient in several forms of the written word - novels, poetry, travel writing, essays, drama - Durrell's best-known work fused Western notions of time and space with Eastern metaphysics.
Very little has been written about Durrell's work before the Second World War. WithA Smile in His Mind's Eye, Ray Morrison seeks to redress this neglect. While French symbolism and the writings of Remy de Gourmont and Arthur Schopenhauer were important to the development of Durrell's writing, it was his embrace of Taoism that truly illustrated a shift from a Western, patriarchal consciousness to that of an Eastern, feminine-centred one and marked Durrell's coming into his own as a writer.
In the years before Durrell's death, Morrison became a close acquaintance of the writer, givingA Smile in His Mind's Eyea personal element unseen in most other scholarly analyses. The work is essential to understanding one of the twentieth century's most original and eclectic minds.
Alexandria Still Pinchin, Jane Lagoudis
2015, 2015., 20150308, 1977, Volume:
1464
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Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of ...Alexandria and the Alexandrian poet, C. P Cavafy, on F,. M. Forster and Lawrence Durrell.
Originally published in 1977.
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