From the Elephant's Back
Collected Essays & Travel Writings
...the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet.-Lawrence DurrellBest known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century Modernism. His anti-authoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries-aesthetically and politically. However, thanks to a compelling recontextualization by editor James Gifford, these thirty-eight previously unpublished and out-of-print essays and letters reveal that Durrell's maturation as an artist was rich, complex, and subtle. Du…
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Weitere Autoren: Gifford, James (Hrsg.) / Baldwin, Peter (Vorb.)
- ISBN: 978-1-77212-061-5
- EAN: 9781772120615
- Produktnummer: 34611278
- Verlag: University of Alberta Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 441 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'821 KB
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Born in Jalandhar, British India, Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) was a critically hailed novelist, poet, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century.
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