[ilds] Author of black book critique?

[Marc Piel]

Blackbook is definately London. The bad side of 
London before the sixties.
I was there, both fascinated and deprressed..... 
then came another London with the beatles and Mary 
Quant.... full of life anf frivolity.... and that 
has disappeared also and now I don't like London 
for anything. It seemed to me last time I went 
that it was all falling to pieces.... Literally. 
Maybe there is a rebuild for the next olympics, 
but will it be real or a pastiche? that is the 
question.
Marc

RW HEDGES a écrit :
>    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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