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Lawrence Durrell, who was called one of the [twentieth] century’s great literary pyrotechnicians” (Kenneth McLeish, London Times), was also one of its most accomplished travel writers. Durrell lived in Provence for thirty years and was its leading literary expatriate long before others discovered that magical wedge of land. In this, his final book, he has left a dazzling testament that distills its essence and conveys its savors as no other work in the English language.
Durrell’s Provence is saturated with the spirits of civilizations past. In the countryside, the marketplace, and among the people, he listens to and conveys for us echos of the battles of Roman generals like Caesar and Agrippa, the love of Petrarch for Laura, the debates of the medieval Courts of Love, and the lyrics of the troubadours. He relates the significance of ruins strewn across Provence, which for him is nothing less than the crucible where the European sensibility was forged, and he discusses such topics as bull worship, black magic, alchemy, the Provençal language, Buffalo Bill’s friendship with the poet Mistral, who was Provence’s Nobel laureate, the beauty of Arlesian women, and the game of boules. Provence is a monument to the author and to the region, and is essential reading for any traveler seeking to understand the spirit of the place.
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Lawrence Durrell was a novelist, poet, and travel writer, whose most famous work is his four-part novel, The Alexandria Quartet. A British citizen born in the Himalayas in 1912, he served as a press attaché in World War II, posted to Cairo and Alexandria, and later lived in Athens, Rhodes, Cyprus, and Belgrade. He was married four times and was a close friend of Henry Miller. He spent the last part of his life in a small village in southern Provence, and died in 1990.
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Brilliant . . . the sort of book I would love to have written.” Erica Jong
This book paradoxically draws us closer to the place than any travelogue . . . could possibly do.” Boston Globe
A love letter to his final home.” Detroit Free Press
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- PublisherArcade
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1611458668
- ISBN 13 9781611458664
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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