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Lawrence Durrell The soft quem quam will be Scops the Owl conjugation of nouns, a line of enquiry, powdery stubble of the socratic prison laurels crack like parchments in the wind. who walks here in…

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El 7 de noviembre de 1990
muere a los 78 años,
🖋️#LawrenceDurrell
Escritor británico, autor de:
📚El cuarteto de Alejandría (1957-1960)
Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive y Clea
Tetralogía renovadora, genial y por momentos abrumadora.
Una obra potente de la #Literatura europea del XX
Editada en castellano por @edhasaeditorial
De retour d’Écosse, ce #vendredilecture je continue d’avancer dans les ~900 pages du « Quatuor d’Alexandrie » de #LawrenceDurrell que j’avais acheté à Londres dans la librairie John Sandoe (Books) Ltd. il y a deux semaines. Durrell est un peu démodé avec ses histoires d’amour et son style fleuri, n’empêche que la libraire m’assurait qu’il en reste encore quelques amateur·rices, mais il est vrai que c’est trempé d’un esprit colonial peu probable de plaire à quiconque d’aujourd’hui. 1/4
First book of the new year & the last in #LawrenceDurrell ‘s #AlexandriaQuartet. Every book so far has blown me away.
#FirstLines What are your favorite first lines in a #novel ? " The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind. In the midst of winter you can feel the inventions of spring…. I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together: the city which used us as its flora — precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria! ..
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13033.The_Alexandria_Quartet #TheAlexandriaQuartet by #LawrenceDurrell
The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet #1-4)

Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957...

‘A landscape for resolutions and partings,’ says Zarian in an essay on famous visitors to Corcyra. ‘A landscape which precipitates the inward crisis of lives as yet not fully worked out.’

Lawrence Durrell, Prospero’s Cell (1945)

#Corfu #LawrenceDurrell

"C'est vraiment drôle que personne n'ait jamais songé à sortir par la cuvette pendant qu'on tirait la chasse d'eau, au lieu d'encombrer la porte. Je salue en Tropique du Cancer le manuel de ma génération."
Lettre de #LawrenceDurrell à #HenryMiller