[ilds] Apocryphra

[Alain HERVE]

You invited me very kindly to enter your network two month ago. I was
charmed to read your exchanges, but i realize I am not that much dedicated
to Durrell. Please cancel my E mail adress from your list for the moment.
I cannot read ten Durrell's E mails a day.
Sorry for the disturbance.
But I will be happy to attend your meeting in France this summer if it takes
place when I am around.
All the best for all of you the Durrellians.
Alain HERVE Paris, France


Le 04/06/08 05:54, « Bruce Redwine » <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net> a écrit :

> Yes to both points.  I wonder how high a regard Durrell had for Borges, the
> latter being already famous and established.  I'm not surprised the two didn't
> hit it off at that apocryphal cocktail party.  Ellmann reports that Joyce and
> Proust barely spoke to one another at another famous dinner party, and it
> wasn't because of any language barrier -- which was true in both instances.
> 
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: slighcl <slighcl at wfu.edu>
>> Sent: Jun 3, 2008 7:56 PM
>> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
>> Subject: Re: [ilds] Somewhere moment
>> 
>> But beyond that we might also consider Durrell's use of Gideon and his
>> "note-books."  The imaginary Gideon's imaginary note-books are certainly
>> an interesting sort of make-believe fulcrum to get things rolling,
>> something like the way that Borges uses an apocryphal or "delinquent"
>> printing of an encyclopedia as a make-believe fulcrum to begin spinning
>> out the history "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1940):
>> 
>> I believe that I am correct in recalling he cocktail party at which
>> Durrell and Borges met did not go so well.  Both writers were wary for
>> whatever reasons and kept to their corners.   I may be remembering
>> darkly or engaging in an apocryphal distortion, but I believe that bit
>> of biography came from the biographer himself in a conversation while I
>> was preparing the text for Durrell's "Minor Mythologies" essay.
> 
> 
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