[ilds] durrell & kitsch

[Charles Sligh]

Bruce Redwine wrote:
>
>  As many have observed, I too see his greatness in some way attached 
> to/ Kitsch./  I'm thinking here of how he can elevate ordinary objects 
> into something extraordinary and memorable:  a watch-key, a scent, an 
> idiom, a refrain, /jamais de la vie, /a summer frock, a few hairs on a 
> death mask, those "effects" of one's life, etc.  Durrell creates a 
> whole ambiance out of small, simple things.  How does he do this?  By 
> not talking too much and just suggesting:  the old truism about 
> showing and not telling.
That is in part his inheritance from Cavafy, eh? 

The miscellaneous furniture of our lives--an old wicker chair, a jar of 
olives &c.--suddenly can show whole biographies, whole histories.

C&c.

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Charles L. Sligh
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
charles-sligh at utc.edu
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