[ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 77, Issue 1_Durrell's residence in Alexandria

Sun Sep 8 21:29:59 PDT 2013

The post seems to say that Durrell stayed in Alexandria from 1942 to
1956...??

Surely, he left Alexandria with Eve Cohen - perhaps for Rhodes - around
1942 or during the early 1940s. As far as I know his next visit to
Alexandria came many years later.

Sumantra

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>    3. Re: Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be demolished
>       (Lynn-Marie & Brewster)
>    4. Re: Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be demolished
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> From: "Robin.W.Collins" <robin.w.collins at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [ilds] Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be demolished
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> Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be demolished
> by Kirsten Reach
>
> ?To a certain extent, being a colonial, you have these wild romantic
> dreams about ?Home,?? Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)admitted 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.
>
> Durrell was a novelist, poet, translator, travel writer, and dramatist. He
> is well known for his lively forty-five year correspondence withHenry
> Miller.
>
> The Alexandria Quartet features the city as its protagonist, including
> scenes on Prophet Daniel Street (where book stalls were destroyed last
> year), Coronation Street, and Kom El-Deka. From the first book in
> theQuartet, 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 inThe Guardian last year of Durrell?s disappearing
> Alexandria.
>
> 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
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> Via my iPhone
> Typos are their fault. I can spell.
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> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 19:50:44 -0500
> From: clawson at gmail.com
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> Subject: [ilds] CFP for Louisville Conference
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> Hi all,
> Please consider submitting a proposal for the panel sponsored by the
> International Lawrence Durrell Society at next year's Louisville
> conference: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/52840
>
> The society is there each year, and we've had some fantastic presentations
> in a forum different from the biennial conferences. This year's panel
> proposal isn't strictly on Durrell's writing, but it interacts with some
> key themes in his writing, and it should be interesting to all. I look
> forward to meeting folks (both new and old) in Louisville!
> James
>
> Landscape and Character in 20th Century ?Big Books?
> The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900?
> http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com?
> Louisville, KY | 20-22 February 2014
> In what ways has literature and our understanding of it been shaped by our
> relationship to landscape?or by landscape's relation to books we read? For
> his part, Durrell appreciated "big" books for the importance they afford
> place: "What makes 'big' books is surely as much to do with their site as
> their characters and incidents." When "ordinary novels," he indicated in
> his essay on "Landscape and Character," are "well and truly anchored in
> nature they usually become classics. One can detect this quality of
> 'bigness' in most books which are so sited from Huckleberry Finn to The
> Grapes of Wrath."
> Among Durrell?s own works, we might consider The Alexandria Quartet as
> remarkable for treatment of place as for plots or people. Across the
> breadth of the Quartet, characters from around the Mediterranean and across
> Europe slowly synchronize, shifting attitudes as with desert sands to
> arrive at similar symptoms and maladies in that work's final volume. In The
> Avignon Quintet, too, people from across Europe, most notably displaced
> Jews and gipsies, exhibit customs and qualities marked by landscape.
> Durrell?s concern for the personal characteristics inhering in landscape is
> informed by the time he spent articulating British interests abroad. In
> this new poetics, "landscape" takes its place with Aristotle's "incident"
> and "character" to augment and ultimately supplant "thought."
> ?In light of the upcoming conference on "Durrell and Place," scheduled in
> Vancouver, papers for this session of the 2014 Louisville Conference
> sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society should address the
> effects of landscape on character and action in fictional "big" books
> published since 1900. The twentieth century offers a wealth of texts, "big"
> in Durrell's sense, in whose good company his writings and comments may be
> considered. Fictional places that invite analysis?on their own or in
> conjunction with Durrellian locales?include (but are not limited to):
> James Joyce?s Dublin
> Anne Rice?s New Orleans?
> Sholem Asch?s St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and Moscow
> The Paris of Walter Benjamin or Ernest Hemingway?
> Freya Stark?s western Iran
> The Kashmir of Salman Rushdie
> The Balkans of Olivia Manning
> Extraterrestrial places in work by authors like Carl Sagan
> William Faulkner?s Yoknapatawpha County
> J. R. R. Tolkien?s Middle Earth
> Please send a 250-word abstract to James Clawson, International Lawrence
> Durrell Society, (clawsonj at gram.edu) by Oct. 1, 2013. Final presentations
> should be limited to 20 minutes in length.
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> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:41:56 -0400
> From: "Lynn-Marie & Brewster" <sunrisedriven at gmail.com>
> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
> Subject: Re: [ilds] Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be
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> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 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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> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:13:44 +0200
> From: Marc Piel <marc at marcpiel.fr>
> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
> Subject: Re: [ilds] Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be
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> 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 ?crit :
> > 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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