[ilds] [New post] "I Wanted to Write a Quartet": Joanna Kavenna Gives a Nod to Lawrence Durrell (1 August 2011).

[Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary.]

Post       : "I Wanted to Write a Quartet": Joanna Kavenna Gives a Nod to Lawrence Durrell (1 August 2011).
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Posted     : 10 August 2011 at 11:49
Author     : durrell2012
Tags       : Joanna Kavenna, Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
Categories : Durrell in the News, Joanna Kavenna, Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

In The Birth of Love (Faber 2010), Joanna Kavenna sought to fashion a novel in which reality was "entirely inflected by the altered concerns of a woman who is in labour." That ideal demanded the discovery of a storytelling form capable of conveying the disorienting immediacy and fragmentary, dreamlike irreality 0f the birth experience.  In [...]

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