Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990), author of The Alexandra Quartet, was a writer with a foot in two worlds. His childhood in India and life in France and Greece provided him with an ability to absorb many traditions, all of which are evident in his work. Proficient in several forms of the written word - novels, poetry, travel writing, essays, drama - Durrell's best-known work fused Western notions of time and space with Eastern metaphysics.
Very little has been written about Durrell's work before the Second World War. With A Smile in His Mind's Eye, Ray Morrison seeks to redress this neglect. While French symbolism and the writings of Remy de Gourmont and Arthur Schopenhauer were important to the development of Durrell's writing, it was his embrace of Taoism that truly illustrated a shift from a Western, patriarchal consciousness to that of an Eastern, feminine-centred one and marked Durrell's coming into his own as a writer.
In the years before Durrell's death, Morrison became a close acquaintance of the writer, giving A Smile in His Mind's Eye a personal element unseen in most other scholarly analyses. The work is essential to understanding one of the twentieth century's most original and eclectic minds.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-507) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 828/.91209
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442670488 0802089399
- LCCN
- PR6007.U76
- LCCN Item number
- Z77 2005eb
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- 1 electronic text (529 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00601033 (OCoLC)244768649 (CaOOCEL)418698
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Abbreviations for Durrell's Works 12
- 1 The Taste of Elsewhere 16
- 2 Quaint Fragments and Literary Horizons 24
- 3 Pied Piper of Lovers: The Boy from India and the Faun 81
- 4 Panic Spring: The Romance of the Will and Its Music 161
- 5 The Black Book: The Journey to the Land 'Where God Is a Yellow Man' 266
- 6 Heraldic Side-Effects 372
- 7 The Suchness of the Early Durrell 450
- Notes 482
- Works Cited 500
- Index 522
- A 522
- B 522
- C 523
- D 524
- E 531
- F 532
- G 533
- H 533
- I 534
- J 534
- K 535
- L 535
- M 536
- N 537
- O 537
- P 537
- Q 538
- R 538
- S 539
- T 541
- U 541
- V 541
- W 542
- X 542
- Y 542
- Z 542
