[ilds] Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria home to be demolished

[Lynn-Marie & Brewster]

I someone going to correct the errors in the article?
Brewster


On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Robin.W.Collins
<robin.w.collins at gmail.com>wrote:

> Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria home to be demolishedby Kirsten Reach<http://www.mhpbooks.com/author/kirsten-reach/>
>
> <http://www.mhpbooks.com/?attachment_id=92149>“To a certain extent, being
> a colonial, you have these wild romantic dreams about ‘Home,’” *Lawrence
> Durrell* (1912-1990)admitted<http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4720/the-art-of-fiction-no-23-lawrence-durrell> in
> an interview with *The Paris Review* in 1959. But now his romantic
> residence in Alexandria, where he began *The Alexandria Quartet*, is scheduled
> to be demolished<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=580021618726819&set=a.209135599148758.52840.100001569598298&type=1&theater>
> .
>
> Durrell was a novelist, poet, translator, travel writer, and dramatist**.
> He is well known for his lively forty-five year correspondence<http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/durrell-miller/4607904>
>  with*Henry Miller*.
>
> *The Alexandria Quartet* features the city as its protagonist, including
> scenes on Prophet Daniel Street (where book stalls<http://www.mhpbooks.com/cops-trashing-books-not-just-for-the-nypd-anymore/> were
> destroyed last year), Coronation Street, and Kom El-Deka. From the first
> book in the*Quartet*, *Justine*, Alexandria is described as “the city
> which used us as its flora—precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and
> which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria!”
>
> Durrell resided in this building in Moharram Bey from 1942 to 1956. He
> lived on the top floor until after the Suez Crisis, when he left Alexandria
> for good. Durrell separated from his wife, *Eve Cohen*, in 1955, slightly
> before his departure; he published *Justine* shortly after, in 1957.
> This is a fine moment to revisit the collection of photographs* Sam
> Jordison* published in*The Guardian *last year of Durrell’s disappearing
> Alexandria<http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/mar/22/lawrence-durrell-alexandria-pictures>
> **.
>
> Photoset: With news of Lawrence Durrell’s Moharram Bey home to be
> demolished, a look back at the writer’s disappearing Alexandria.
>
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> http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/60459816305/with-news-of-lawrence-durrells-moharram-bey-home
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> Typos are their fault. I can spell.
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