[ilds] Rain, Scholars and Avignon

[Marc Piel]

Hey David,
Are you going to share that link or not?
@+
Marc

Denise Tart & David Green a écrit :
> Hey Roy,
>  
> good to see you getting into the list again. I hoped you would come out 
> of your late night grotto.
>  
> I write on a windswept and swirling morning of rain and cool southerly 
> winds; rather a good day to inside corresponding and or reading. It's 
> school holidays now and I'm heading up to my family's weekender in the 
> Blue Mountains west of Sydney for a few days of books and walking and 
> talking into the night over wine and candles - very Durrellesque. On the 
> menu are EH Carrs' what is History and a re read of Justine, which have 
> not read for many years and feel I must if am to be considered a serious 
> Durrellist.
>  
> To all the ILDS people, Yesterday I found this this _www_ with a whole 
> heap of mp3 recordings of lectures on Durrell and an interview with him 
> by American academics, many of them ILDS people: James Gifford, Charles 
> Sligh and some very critical chap called John Bandler who ripped 'Bitter 
> Lemons' and 'Collossus of Morrosi' to pieces.  I wrote down a whole 
> bunch of lines from these lectures and reckon they will make an poem on 
> Durrell. It is interesting how LD receives such scholarship in the USA 
> but not in his own country. As to my own land, he is barely known in 
> Australia even amongst academic circles.
>  
> Yesterday I had the following thoughts on the Avignon thing - although I 
> have only read Monsieur- it has an otherwordliness, a dreamlike quality. 
> It really is the heraldic universe, carefully constructed, much more so 
> than Alexandria where I think the characters are more drawn from real 
> life. There is something etherial about the characters, they are almost 
> ghosts and I wonder how deliberate that is. many of the lectures 
> mentioned above and the interview with Larry were made just after the 
> Avignon Quintent had been published. Durrell sound very tired and frail. 
> I guess he had been cutting that log for a long time.
>  
> Anyway, impressive stuff those lectures etc. to hear all that 
> scholarship poured into one 5 foot 4 inch tall man who never called 
> England home.
>  
> David Green
> 16 William Street
> Marrickville NSW  2204
> AUSTRALIA
>  
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