Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu - Couverture souple

Durrell, Lawrence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1569247668 ISBN 13 : 9781569247662

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Subtitled: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (Corfu). An odd, melancholic work, at once a character study and brief memoir as well as a travel guide. Written by the author in the mid-'30s when he and wife lived on the island (and awaited publication of the Black Book), but not published 'til years later, when memory and a world war changed things dramatically.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1569247668
• ISBN 13: 9781569247662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 142
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible