Lawrence Durrell: The Mindscape

by Richard Pine

Overview

In this second volume of his study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell (following the appearance in 1988 of The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind and Morals from Brummell to Durrell Richard Pine examines in detail Durrell's unique contribution to the development of the modern novel, concentrating in particular on the evidence of Durrell's private notebooks and diaries. Pine's twenty-year friendship with Burrell has resulted in an intimate portrait of a singular mind whose extraordinary career, both as a writer and as a British colonial official, is hallmarked by the creation of 'the Heraldic Universe', an imaginative realm within which the artist reigns supreme.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333470770
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/10/1994
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chronology Abbreviations - Preface - Introduction - The Child - The Island - The City - The Refusal - The Miracle - Notes and References - Index