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	Lawrence Durrell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan.
		In that year Durrell, his wife Nancy, his mother, and his siblings (including brother Gerald Durrell, later to be a major British wildlife conservationist and popular writer) moved to the Greek island of Corfu, where they lived until 1941, when they had to leave the island due to World War II.
		Durrell separated from his wife in 1942, and became peripatetic, living for some time in Egypt, Rhodes, Argentina, and Greece, and finally settling in the south of France at a house near Sommières.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Durrell (580 words)

	Gerald Durrell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Durrell's father was a British engineer, and as befitting family status, the infant Durrell spent most of his time in the company of the ayah or nursemaid.
		Durrell was instrumental in founding the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, on July 6, 1963 to cope with the increasingly difficult challenges of zoo, wildlife and habitat management.
		Durrell chose the Dodo, the flightless bird of Mauritius that was mercilessly hunted to extinction in the 1600s, as the logo for both the Jersey Zoo and the Trust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerald_Durrell (5139 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Lawrence Durrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lawrence George Durrell was born on February 27, 1912, in Jullundur, India, the child of an English railway engineer Lawrence Samuel Durrell and his Irish wife Louisa Florence Dixie, both of whom had been born on the subcontinent themselves.
		Durrell wrote Miller an admiring letter that eventually led to his visiting the older writer in Paris, a sojourn resulting in a brief period of literary hijinks and a lifelong friendship and correspondence.
		Lawrence Durrell's travel writings place him in the company of Norman Douglas and D.H. Lawrence, although he strikes a more intimate note than the former and is less obtrusive an observer than the latter.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1362 (1901 words)

	Durrell, Lawrence on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Durrell traveled widely, often serving in diplomatic positions; most of his works are set in exotic locations and convey an extraordinary sense of place.
		Durrell's masterpiece is The Alexandria Quartet, consisting of Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960).
		Durrell's later novel sequences include the literary satire of Tunc (1968) and Numquam (1970), and The Avignon Quincunx (1974-85), which brought together his study of southern France and his obsession with multiple perspective.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/durrell.asp (982 words)

	Gerald Durrell
		Durrell had always loved animals, and as a young child in Corfu his goal was to run his own zoo.
		His family got so annoyed with this obsession, with animals Durrell had collected escaping from his room and running rampant through the house, that they converted the spare room of their house into an animal storage room in which a young Durrell was allowed to keep specimens, taxidermy projects and scientific equipment.
		Once the zoo was running smoothly, Durrell decided to go on several collecting trips to rescue endangered animals, to collect material for his next books and to help in the filming of rare animals for a BBC TV series.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/2007/durrell.html (1253 words)

	LitWeb.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Durrell was born in Darjeeling, India, as the son of Lawrence Samuel Durrell, a British engineer, and Louisa (Dixie) Durrell, who was Irish.
		During WW II Durrell served as a press attaché to the British embassies in Cairo and Alexandria from 1941 to 1944.
		Durrell's observation of the diplomatic life at the British legation in Belgrade, where he was from 1949 to 1952, gave him material for WHITE EAGLES OVER SERBIA (1957), which gained considerable success.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/durrell_lawrence.html (1328 words)

	Lawrence Durrell (Rexroth)
		Durrell is so much more economical; Proust, delighted to discover a spark of humor rising in his humorless mind, usually worked his jokes to death.
		Durrell seems to be fascinated with the thin sentence of sense in the vast, dull mass of Sade, the notion that the most life-destroying of all poisons is guilt.
		Durrell is part of the time writing in the same dismal London rooming house, part of the time he is recollecting in replete and guiltless tranquility in rainy, wintry Corfu (or is it Crete?).
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/essays/durrell.htm (4726 words)

	Jouvert 6.1 - 2: James Gifford, "Forgetting A Homeless Colonial: Gender, Religion and Transnational Childhood in ...
		Lawrence Samuel Durrell was born in Calcutta in 1884, and his wife Louisa Florence in Roorkee, 1886.
		Lawrence Durrell's parents, Lawrence Samuel and Louisa, did not visit England until 1926 and 1923 respectively, Louisa briefly accompanying her eldest son as he was sent home for schooling.
		Lawrence Samuel visited in 1926 "to inspect the house his wife had chosen for his retirement" (Bowker 30); however, he died two years later in India (as does John Clifton) of a brain hemorrhage due to a tumor at the age of 43.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/v6i1-2/giffor.htm (6745 words)

	Lawrence Durrell
		The essays in this volume represent attempts at understanding Lawrence Durrell's work, by means of the Greece thathe creates as part of his fictional and poetic universe.
		Durrell's appreciation of Greece is grounded in his belief that the Mediterranean is the "matrix of civilization." The Hellenic world functions in his work as a fertile, vibrant crossroads of cultures, philosophies, and peoples.
		It is here that Durrell has chosen to construct a bridge between "The world of the human passions, the sort of shadow world in which we live, and.
	www.susqu.edu /su_press/defaultInformation/LawrenceDurrell.htm (306 words)

	Amazon.com: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea/Boxed Set: Books: Lawrence Durrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur / Livia / Constance / Sebastian / Quinx by Lawrence Durrell
		Durrell had her confined in a hospital in Germany, and brought his mother to Cyprus to help him with Sappho, his daughter with Eve.
		Durrell's Alexandria was so different from any world I had known that this mysterious quality was extremely strong for me. Thirdly, and this seemed especially problematic and puzzling to me then while perhaps now years later it is more familiar and yet still morally problematic.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140153179?v=glance (2721 words)

	The Lawrence Durrell Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lawrence Durrell is best known as the author of the Alexandria Quartet, a cycle of novels published between 1957 and 1960, chronicling the lives of an ensemble cast of diverse characters immediately prior to and during the Second World War.
		In his 'investigation of modern love', Durrell constructed a novel in multiple dimensions that continues to fascinate readers to this day, but his work extends far beyond the four volumes of the Quartet.
		In addition to other novels, Durrell was a playwright, poet, essayist, travel writer, and humourist.
	www.grapevine.net /~nedblake/lgd_main.html (124 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: The Alexandria Quartet
		Lawrence Durrell had been known to a small readership for his poetry, his experimental (and banned) novel The Black Book (1938), and his travel memoirs Prospero's Cell (1945) and Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953).
		Durrell had been driven by the advance of war from Greece to Egypt in 1941, and although he does not seem to have liked the North African country, it would provide the raw material for his best-known works.
		Durrell also utilizes Einstein's theory of relativity, recounting the same events from multiple viewpoints within the first three volumes, then advancing the characters and situations through the fourth dimension, time, in the fourth and final volume.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10820 (675 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Justine \| Lawrence Durrell
		The most provocative aspect of Justine might be Durrell's critique, much like that of his mentor Henry Miller, of puritan or Victorian notions about love and his depiction of a kind of love that is more sexually liberated, nonpossessive, and intellectually complex.
		We must ultimately ask whether Durrell is depicting love as it ought to be, unfettered by outdated sensibilities and possessiveness, or whether what he describes is actually the failure to love completely or maturely.
		Lawrence Durrell was born in Darjeeling, India, in 1912 to an English father and an Irish-English mother.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/justine.html (1634 words)

	The Lawrence Durrell Collection
		This is a special collection of books and periodicals by, about or associated with the novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell, donated to the Library by Alan G. Thomas.
		The Durrell Collection supplements other Lawrence Durrell items in the general collections, which can be found on the Integrated Catalogue.
		Lawrence Durrell [and] Henry Millar: a private correspondence, edited by George Wickes.
	www.bl.uk /collections/britirish/modbridurrell.html (2793 words)

	International Lawrence Durrell Society: The Alexandria Quartet
		Notes: Contains Durrell's "The Hanged Man," "Three Carols and A Soliloquy from Uncebuncke," "In Crisis," "Father Nicolas His Death," "Sermon of One," "The Three Sons to Leslie Gerald, my brothers," and "Fangbrand (A biography)." Some are slight variants.
		Notes: Durrell is also briefly discussed by Ridler in her introduction to the volume.
		Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Private CorrespondenceLawrence Durrell and Henry Miller.
	www.durrell-school-corfu.org /bibliog/biblesser-c.htm (3877 words)

	Gerald Durrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grandfather Durrell went on to serve with distinction in the Boxer Rebellion in China, rising eventually to the rank of major and dying in Portsmouth in 1914, shortly after volunteering for active service in the Great War at the age of sixty-three.
		Lawrence Samuel Durrell by all accounts was a decent but rather distant and often absent figure to his children, for his work as an engineer took him across the length and breadth of British India, from the Punjab and the Himalayas to Bengal, and as far away as the jungles of Burma.
		Lawrence Samuel was keen to find a property to buy in London, either as an investment or as a place to retire to, or both.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/botting-durrell.html (4451 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lawrence Durrell (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Purporting to be a study of the many ramifications of love, the quartet's excellence lies mainly in its technique : its rich, ornamental language, its experiments with point of view, and its evocation of the exotic, frequently bizarre atmosphere of the city of Alexandria, Egypt.
		Durrell's later novel sequences include the literary satire of Tunc (1968) and Numquam (1970), and The Avignon Quincunx (1974–85), which brought together his study of southern France and his obsession with multiple perspective.
		Among Durrell's other works are volumes of poetry including The Red Limbo Lingo (1971) and Vega and Other Poems (1973), and the novel Monsieur (1975).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Durrell.html (457 words)

	Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog: The Booster - October 1937
		According to Ian McNiven's Durrell biography, the English version of this story was found in a book of Greenland tales by Durrell; according to Mary Dearborn's Miller biography, the story had been lifted from another magazine.
		Lawrence Durrell: A Biography (MacNiven) describes the tale like this: "an aged Eskimo disappears entirely into the vagina of a young woman.
		Lawrence's younger brother Gerald, age 11 (and living in Corfu with his parents) wrote this morbid poem about an operating theatre.
	cosmotc.blogspot.com /2005/09/booster-october-1937.html (905 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		Of the two full biographies of Durrell published within the past thirteen months, the first by Gordon Bowker, the second by Ian MacNiven, the latter clearly establishes itself as the one that serious readers of Durrell have long awaited and will turn to for information backed by authority.
		MacNiven places Durrell squarely in the bold tradition that runs from Joyce, Lawrence, Miller, and Freud to those writers who with courage continue the explorations of these four innovators to the end of a century that may now be in danger of drowning under waves of neo-Puritan timidity Durrell himself would have combatted.
		Although we are likely to uncover new details about Durrell’s numerous relationships and generate revised readings of his fiction and poetry, we will probably not see for years to come, or ever, a more thorough, enjoyable, or convincing record of the many lives the poet-novelist led than MacNiven’s portrait.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/99_1/lawrencedurrell.html (295 words)

	International Lawrence Durrell Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) was one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.
		Born in India, Durrell lived in and celebrated the Mediterranean world, not only as a novelist but also as an acclaimed poet, travel writer, essayist, dramatist, and humorist.
		The International Lawrence Durrell Society manages these pages and invites letters, e-mail messages, and articles related to Durrell's work or this web site.
	www.lawrencedurrell.org (125 words)

	Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria Quartet
		To begin with the pretensions: Durrell himself gave frequent support to the idea that he was a literary Einstein who had surpassed Joyce, ”stream-of-pompousness” authors and Proust by having invented a relativistic novel in which time was conquered or even abolished.
		Durrell himself is not knowledgeable about science and has only an arrogant literary awareness of these philosophical developments.
		Durrell abhors dullness and presents a succession of set-piece episodes and adventures seemingly chosen for their distance from mid-century modernist banality.
	www.50connect.co.uk /turner/criticism/criticismLD01.html (1688 words)

	Book Reviews: Provence by Lawrence Durrell - ExperiencePlus! Reading Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lawrence Durrell belongs to a group of travel writers who go back to the British expatriates of the early and mid-20th century.
		Durrell's fascination with this mixture of place, landscape and history is evident throughout the book but is perhaps nowhere better stated than in his description of the Roman ruins in Orange and Nimes, where he states, "The heartbeat of a place is recorded in these stone experiences."
		Durrell proves himself more than capable in both of these with his introduction of local characters like Aldo, his landlord, and Jerome, the "saintly tramp" as he calls him.
	www.experienceplus.com /reading_room/archives/2002/03/provence_by_law.html (700 words)

	Review of Selected Essays on the Humor of Lawrence Durrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The present collection of essays on Durrell's humor, with its grayly offputting title, Selected Essays on the Humor of Lawrence Durrell, falls squarely into this essentially comic mode; it proves, at the last and indeed throughout, to be stimulating, interesting, and rewarding.
		Durrell the comic genius would appreciate a broad comic irony at work in in the circumstances of this publication.
		Devoting a chapter to Durrell in Crisis-Consciousness and the Novel (Delaware, 1992), I surprised myself by eventually sitting the center of Durrellian gravity in a passage from near the end of Clea--the famous passage where Nimrod describes Scobie's hilarious escapade with a new type of water-closet.
	www.latech.edu /deusloci/deusloci/ns2/2_hollahanrev.html (516 words)

	The poetry of Lawrence Durrell
		But sadly it must be accounted that the poems have hardly repaid all the devotion they received from my twenty-year-old self: they gave me little help towards my own writing and left little trace of the kind often underwritten by an author’s personality or singular vision.
		Durrell was to a surprising extent a chameleon of his times who borrowed ideas and styles that were in circulation, perhaps because of a lack of real conviction about who he was.
		After Claude, who seems to have managed to type for and organise him, and to have created for a few blessed years the structure of a real family for herself, Durrell and their four children by other spouses, Ghislaine, his next wife, is humiliated and brutalised from the first elements of the wedding.
	www.50connect.co.uk /turner/criticism/criticismLD05.html (945 words)

	Into the Labyrinth:Essays on the Art of Lawrence Durrell
		Metafictional?” It is the same problem that John A. Weigel addressed in Lawrence Durrell twenty-four years earlier:“If one could only place Durrell, one could deal with him.Durrell as a novelist is easily misplaced.” Durrell’s position in the ever-shifting canon is also at issue today.
		Another area of Durrell scholarship that is ripe for new criticism concerns his relationship to other writers and the question of influence.
		Into the Labyrinth definitely makes a contribution to Durrell scholarship.It and the other recently published collections of essays all bear witness to Durrell’s accomplishment and to the variety of critical scholarship it has evoked.Durrell’s description of Henry Miller—that he was “born many”—applies to himself as well.
	www.latech.edu /deusloci/deusloci/ns1/1_lilliosrev.htm (858 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Alexandria Quartet: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Durrell from start to finish writes with elegance and strength - with the observations of the poet and the hunger of a man who has lived through such experiences.
		Alexandria - the city, of course, can also lay claim to be the central figure, her presence captured so uniquely by Durrell haunts almost every page, interacting with the protagonists and providing a real 'sense of place.' It is a sublime work that all lovers of serious literature should read.
		Across four volumes Durrell seldom puts a foot wrong and while his florid prose is not to everyone's taste, nobody can deny that this is one of the the under rated classics of the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571086098 (937 words)

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