[ilds] "the double darkness"

[Bruce Redwine]

The obvious question, if I understand this comment.  If Durrell did not give permission to quote from Prospero's Cell, why did the publisher, Cresset Press, allow Fenton to quote from PC?  Also, perhaps LD didn't give permission because he didn't like the "anti-British" theme?


Bruce


On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Charles Sligh wrote:

> Dear List:
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> Please see below for an interesting note on Edward Fenton, forwarded by 
> Richard Pine.
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> Below Richard's description, I have copied and pasted links to a Fenton 
> obituary, the Fenton Papers, and information from the googlebooks 
> account of the 1947 Doubleday printing.
> 
> We would be happy to hear more from any who know more.  C&c.
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>>        Edward Fenton's novel 'The Double Darkness' (Cresset Press 1948) was written in Athens in 1946. Two of the novel's 8 sections (the first and the last) bear epigraphs from the opening page of Prospero's Cell. The author and publishers acknowledge permission to quote in the cases of epigraphs from TS Eliot and Demetrios Capetanakis, but not from Durrell. LD possessed a copy of this book at least up to the time he left Cyprus. The copy was possibly sent to him in return for permission (but unacknowledged) to quote from Prospero's Cell.
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>> Edward Fenton, 78, A Children's Author Inspired by Greece
>> Published: January 5, 1996
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/05/nyregion/edward-fenton-78-a-children-s-author-inspired-by-greece.html?pagewanted=1
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>> EDWARD FENTON PAPERS
>> de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
>> The University of Southern Mississippi
>> http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0316f.html?DG0316b.html~mainFrame
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>>        Reviews
>>        Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews
>>        A first novel by a writer whose short stories have already had
>>        literary recognition. The talent here is distinct -- there is
>>        a sharp sense of place, of mood, an imagery touched off by
>>        realism. The story is concerned with Athens, after its
>>        liberation, but still a fear-ridden, death-ridden city, and
>>        with the lance corporal who takes on the identity of the Greek
>>        he had not meant to kill. Wandering ...
>>        More through the city, he spends a night with the effete,
>>        effeminate Pavlides, escapes, and is finally rescued by Maro,
>>        a girl, who takes him to a house harboring blinded soldiers, a
>>        house of ""double darkness"". Falling in love with Maro, he
>>        joins the anti-British underground of which she and her
>>        brother are members. Eventually he loses her when all are
>>        forced into hiding, and gains his final freedom as he ships
>>        aboard a British vessel... A book for literary, perhaps,
>>        rather than popular appreciation.
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>>        More book information
>>        Title    The double darkness
>>        Author    Edward Fenton
>>        Publisher    Doubleday, 1947
>>        Length    301 pages
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>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=ZJ8wGQAACAAJ&dq=darkness+inauthor:%22Edward+Fenton%22&as_brr=0&ei=rLphS5G5O4bAMoLFlN0N&client=firefox-a&cd=1
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