Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (Corfu)
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Language: English
Published by Marlowe & Company, 1996
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- Title
- Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (Corfu)
- Author
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Publisher
- Marlowe & Company
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1569247668
- ISBN 13
- 9781569247662
Lawrence Durrell composed Propero's Cell as if it were a journal or diary of a year and a half on the island of Corfu, and he prefaced his statement of poetic intent by a casual comment, "I am making no attempt to control all this material." Of course he really is, for this is a carefully plotted and thought-out reminiscence that covers a period from early spring to harvest time a year later (from April 1937 to September 1938, with an added postscript in 1941) -- the turning of the seasons of one special time.
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LJ's reviewer called this volume, which is a guide to the isle of Corfu and other Greek landscapes, "somewhat difficult to define-some travel, some history, some real characters, living and dead, some saints and sinners." Durrell's account nonetheless is "sensitive, nostalgic, and yet surprisingly factual" (LJ 12/15/60).
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