Black Book - Couverture souple

Durrell, Lawrence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571110754 ISBN 13 : 9780571110759

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Durrell Lawrence

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'The first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction.' -- T.S. Eliot

'This is a wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza; it is intrinsically and essentially, the book of a young man ... richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny indeed, self-pitying, but, above all, stylistically and verbally inventive as no other young man's novel of the period was even attempting to be.' --Philip Toynbee, Observer

'[Durrell's] prose renders ordinary scenes brilliantly strange ... while [the novel] may no longer shock, it will astonish.' --Independent on Sunday

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0571110754
• ISBN 13: 9780571110759
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 243