[ilds] Durrell and Biography

[Bruce Redwine]

Rony,

Dunno about Otto Rank.  But I have great interest in the relationship between Durrell's art and his life — which I find very complicated.  I see a big gap between the two and am reminded of controversial figures like Bruce Chatwin and Paul de Man.  Near the end of his Big Sur book, Henry Miller writes, "A man writes in order to know himself, and thus get rid of self eventually."  Like Chatwin and de Man, Durrell had a few things to expunge or expiate.


Bruce



On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:28 AM, James Gifford wrote:

> Hello Rony,
> 
> Others will surely chime in on this, but to the best of my knowledge, 
> the work hasn't survived in a complete form (though there may be pieces 
> held in Carbondale).  It might also be worth finding out if it was in 
> the materials held by Alan G. Thomas that are now in the British 
> Library.  Perhaps those who have spent a good deal of time at Carbondale 
> can respond?
> 
> Durrell lost a good deal of material before leaving Greece for Egypt.
> 
> Do you perhaps mean "The Poet's Horn," which I think was on Eliot (among 
> other poets) as well as psychoanalytic subjects?  I don't think there 
> are more than a dozen critical works that take up Durrell's interests in 
> Rank in a sustained manner, apart from Pine and MacNiven.  I also have 
> not seen a copy of that text...
> 
> Cheers,
> James
> 
> On 20/01/11 10:52 PM, Rony Alfandary wrote:
>> Thank you Yael and Bruce for your kind words. it is encouraging to see
>> there is some interest.
>> i am at the moment exploring the connection between Durrell and Otto
>> Rank. According to MacNiven, Durrell wrote an unpublished text on Rank.
>> i wonder if anyone here knows of its whereabouts?
>> thanks,
>> Rony
>>