From james.d.gifford at gmail.com  Mon Jun 25 16:38:03 2012
From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:38:03 -0700
Subject: [ilds] Remembering Lawrence Durrell
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Predictor of our Postmodern World...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/06/24/remembering-lawrence-durrell-predictor-of-our-postmodern-world.html

--> Well worth a look here!

Cheers,
James
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From alfandary at gmail.com  Tue Jun 26 22:39:25 2012
From: alfandary at gmail.com (Rony Alfandary)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:39:25 +0300
Subject: [ilds] durrell at the book beast
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funny item...a bit gushing for me and misleading - there were quite a few
under 60, under 50 and even under 40 present...
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From sumantranag at gmail.com  Wed Jun 27 02:51:51 2012
From: sumantranag at gmail.com (Sumantra Nag)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:21:51 +0530
Subject: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 63,
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Thanks James, that was worth reading.

Peter Pomerantsev seems to have looked back from the increasingly 
multi-cultural milieus of the 21st century and found a broad social link 
with The Alexandria Quartet.

As an Indian who was first attracted by the AQ many years ago - during my 
adolescence which is when most people seem to have responded most strongly 
to these novels - it is interesting to read the following confession from 
Lawrence Durrell:

"I have an Indian heart and an English skin," he said. "I realized this very 
late, when I was twenty-one, twenty-two. It created a sort of psychological 
crisis. I nearly had a nervous breakdown. I realized suddenly that I was not 
English really, I was not European. There was something going on underneath 
and I realized that it was the effect of India on my thinking."

I also find the following observation by the author rather ominous - in what 
direction? I don't know:

"It is always the "cross-patriates," the hyphenated, who are drawn to 
Durrell."

Best wishes

Sumantra


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From billyapt at gmail.com  Wed Jun 27 06:10:49 2012
From: billyapt at gmail.com (William Apt)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:10:49 -0500
Subject: [ilds] durrell at the book beast
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True that, Rony. Two of the speakers were in their 40s, too. Not that Joanna Hodgin isnt marvelously youthful!  But when I read the article, it made me wonder if the author attended a different talk at the British Library.

Billy Apt

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> funny item...a bit gushing for me and misleading - there were quite a few under 60, under 50 and even under 40 present...
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