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Part travelogue, part notebook, part autobiogaphy, this text preserves memories from Lawrence Durrell's intimate experience of the Midi, and scattered through the text are 19 poems.
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Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St Edmund's School, Canterbury. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1938. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, about Rhodes, and Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet, which he completed in southern France where he settled permanently in 1957. Between the Quartet and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps. Caesar's Vast Ghost, his reflections on the history and culture of Provence, including a late flowering of poems, appeared a few days before his death in Sommières in 1990.
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The noted novelist's sixth travel book explores the history and culture of Provence, where he has lived for more than three decades. Although not quite on the same level as Bitter Lemons (Dutton, 1959), which focused on the political tensions over Cyprus in the 1950s, Vast Ghost has all the characteristics of Durrell's travel books: brilliant descriptive passages, esoteric theories on love and culture, colorful local characters, and bizarre sexual escapades. (The book concludes with the author escorting a "Latex doll of great beauty" to a water party on the Rhone.) Durrell won't win over any converts, but those who enjoyed his previous travel writings won't be disappointed either.
- Donald P. Kaczvinsky, Louisiana Tech Univ., Ruston
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0571214274
- ISBN 13 9780571214273
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages212
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