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

[Marc Piel]

I was surprised that nobody had said anything and 
even more today as no-one has said anything about 
the dates that are inaccurate........
Is the whole list still sleeping off London 2012?
@+
Marc Piel

Le 08/09/13 17:41, Lynn-Marie & Brewster a écrit :
> 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 
> <mailto:robin.w.collins at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria home to be
>         demolished
>
>
>             by 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.
>
>
>
>
>     http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/60459816305/with-news-of-lawrence-durrells-moharram-bey-home
>
>
>     Via my iPhone
>     Typos are their fault. I can spell.
>
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