💧🌏 Greg CocksJan 2
I just found the perfect bath book, it is barely wider than my flattened hand when closed, hardcover of course...
They rarely make books like this anymore, it even has a bound in cloth bookmark, and an embossed cover that is wonderful for 'doodling' on with the free hand as I read...
And the writing is so engaging, descriptive, another place & time...
#readingforpleasure #durrell #bathbook #newyear #corfu #greece
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DrafterAug 10, 2025
« The way is through facts. I must record what more I know and attempt to render it comprehensible or plausible to myself, if necessary, by an act of the imagination. Or can facts be left to themselves ? »
Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet, Faber, 2021 [1958], page 221.
Une définition magistrale de ce que peut être un roman. Où il n'est pas question du lecteur, et qui pose d'immenses défis. "if necessary" qualifiant ce que l'on doit /devrait/ rendre plausible, ou renvoyant à l'acte d'imaginer (pour les infléchir ? Pour les étoffer ?). Et en point d'orgue, dilemme ultime : les faits peuvent-ils se suffir à eux-mêmes ?
#litterature #roman #Durrell
FDU PressFeb 18, 2025

Isabelle Keller-Privat & Anne Zahlan's *Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell* is now out!

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934448/

*Heresy and Heterotopia* gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and heterotopian counter-spaces in Durrell's thought and writing. The contributors approach Durrell's texts from a variety of perspectives, philosophical and intertextual, architectural and historical, mystical and digital.

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#modernism #books #bookstodon #durrell #literature

Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell: Alexandria to Angkor Wat

Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell examines heretical elements in Durrell’s thought and writings and Foucauldian explorations of his treatments of place and space. It links Lawren...

Rowman & Littlefield
ceolnJul 21, 2024

Posted!

Sunday and Justine https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/07/21/sunday-and-justine/

#weblog #quotidia #reading #writing #books #durrell #justine

Sunday and Justine

Good Sunday to you! To youse, to y’all. Various things have happened, but as has been evident for years now I don’t feel as obliged, or as prone, to write them all down as I did once. T…

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Márton SalomváryJun 17, 2024

I’m re-reading Gerald Durrell’s classic My Family and Other Animals and loving it. His books (and The Amateur Naturalist also a TV show) were among my first reads as a child and shaped my still lasting passion towards natural history.

I sometimes wonder whether I should have pursued this as a career instead of computers…

#books #nature #durrell

DrWebApr 9, 2024

Lawrence Durrell's Odyssey of Greek Islands a Travel Masterpiece - GreekReporter.com

https://greekreporter.com/2024/04/08/lawrence-durrell-greek-islands-travel/
#Greece #Travel #Durrell

Lawrence Durrell's Odyssey of Greek Islands a Travel Masterpiece - GreekReporter.com

The Greek Islands by Durrell is one of the most exciting travel books. It is a launching place to learn about history, the islands and the people.

GreekReporter.com
Show threadUlrich PlateDec 15, 2023
Les deux seront les derniers cette année sur ma liste de livres dont les vrais protagonistes sont les villes où ils ont lieu, après #Alexandria, #Bucharest, #Glasgow et #Dublin de #Durrell, #Cartarescu, #Gray et #Joyce. Et sur ce dernier on va s’arrêter ici, avec la révérence intertextuelle de Nicola Pugliese qui termine « Malacqua » dans la même perspective qu'au début de « Ulysse » - deux hommes devant un miroir, en train de se raser, réfléchissant à l’avenir et d'en attendant mieux. 4/4
Ulrich PlateAug 24, 2023
"They had been trying to extract the gold teeth which had been such an unpleasant feature of her party-smile." -- Lawrence #Durrell (#Justine, p. 126)
dougfortAug 14, 2023

#Durrell #Cavafy #MarkAntony

Translated by Lawrence Durrell

Los cuadernos de ViecoJun 12, 2023

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Planificación de una novela. Lawrence Durrell

Hay muy poca planificación en cuanto tal. Cuento con cierta cantidad de....

https://loscuadernosdevieco.blog/2023/04/24/planificacion-de-una-novela-lawrence-durrell

#creacion #durrell

Planificación de una novela. Lawrence Durrell

P.: ¿Con cuánta antelación planifica sus novelas? R.: Hay muy poca planificación en cuanto tal. Cuento con cierta cantidad de datos, pero el gran peligro es que de alguna manera se convierta en un …

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