Panic Spring : A Romance

Durrell, Lawrence writing as Charles Norden / James Gifford - editor

ISBN 10: 1550583816 / ISBN 13: 9781550583816

Published by ELS Editions / University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2008

About this Item

235 pp. Light edge and corner wear.

Seller Inventory # 053370

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Panic Spring : A Romance
• Publisher: ELS Editions / University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550583816
• ISBN 13: 9781550583816
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author's first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist techniques merge with rural life and the peasant village that an international group of expatriates are led to by a curiously Pan-like boatman. Unavailable for seven decades, this new edition of Panic Spring shows Durrell's emerging passion for Mediterranean life and the Greek world as well as his first attempts to articulate a political-aesthetic direction distinct from his peers, George Orwell and W.H. Auden. Under the shadow of financial and political ruin, on the verge of revolution and war, the one chance summer depicted in Panic Spring will make readers reconsider the impetus and interests behind Durrell's late modernist masterpieces, The Alexandria Quartet, The Black Book, and Prospero's Cell.

About the Author

James Gifford is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the University Core at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver.