[ilds] Author of black book critique?

[RW HEDGES]

 Jacob, I spent a little while checking some of the letters in spirit of place but couldnt find out who said that? Maybe it was Alan G. Thomas his book shop mate? Its a good quote. It wouldnt be Miller. Miller put aside Tropic Of Capricorn to type it out with Anais Ninn and they got it to T.S Elliot and JAck Kahane at the Oblesk press....Then it was out in Paris with Miller acting as its Godfather and Ninn its Godmother. Without that kind of support no Durrell as we know him. Miller was unshockable his books banned. He also did not believe that literature was Art. He said life was Art. The rest was a desperate clawing at the surface etc.

 But to me the Black book smells of London. I walked the streets of its setting and I smelt the black book and vice versa. Its a favourite of mine though I know Miller fans who couldnt finish it. The Durrell Miller Letters and Millers own "Collosuss of Marousii" are good Durrell Miller cross over material if you havent already read them.....Hope someone else can shed some light, Good Luck, RW

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