From sunrisedriven at gmail.com  Mon Sep  9 06:32:20 2013
From: sunrisedriven at gmail.com (Lynn-Marie & Brewster)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:32:20 -0400
Subject: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 77,
	Issue 1_Durrell's residence in Alexandria
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On October 1, 1943, LD, Eve and their friends the Gotches moved into the
house at 17 (now 19) rue Maamoun in Moharrem Bey.
On May 30, 1945 LD traveled to Rhodes from Alexandria on a scouting
mission. He returned to Alex on June 9/10. He and Eve departed Alex in
mid-July and landed on Rhodes July 19.
This information is readily available in my "A Chronology of the Life and
Times of Lawrence Durrell."
      Brewster



On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Sumantra Nag <sumantranag at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>       (Lynn-Marie & Brewster)
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>> To: "ilds at lists.uvic.ca" <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>
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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
>>
>>
>> Via my iPhone
>> Typos are their fault. I can spell.
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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
>>         demolished
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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
>>         demolished
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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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From james.d.gifford at gmail.com  Mon Sep  9 12:05:36 2013
From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford)
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:05:36 -0700
Subject: [ilds] Durrell's residence in Alexandria
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Brewster,

You seem in the best position to write to the newspaper.  Please do and 
let us know the results!

All best,
James

On 2013-09-09 6:32 AM, Lynn-Marie & Brewster wrote:
> On October 1, 1943, LD, Eve and their friends the Gotches moved into the
> house at 17 (now 19) rue Maamoun in Moharrem Bey.
> On May 30, 1945 LD traveled to Rhodes from Alexandria on a scouting
> mission. He returned to Alex on June 9/10. He and Eve departed Alex in
> mid-July and landed on Rhodes July 19.
> This information is readily available in my "A Chronology of the Life
> and Times of Lawrence Durrell."
>        Brewster
>

From dtart at bigpond.net.au  Mon Sep  9 13:29:33 2013
From: dtart at bigpond.net.au (Denise Tart & David Green)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:29:33 +1000
Subject: [ilds] Durrell's residence in Alexandria
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According to my notes, Larry and Nancy arrived in Alexandria around April 25th 1941 on board a steamer which he later said had been commandeered by drunken Australian soldiers who had previously broken into a shop and stolen canned carnation milk for baby Penelope, so in a way Penny's life may have been saved, or at least assisted greatly by my bibulous countrymen.

David	

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On 10/09/2013, at 5:05 AM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brewster,
> 
> You seem in the best position to write to the newspaper.  Please do and let us know the results!
> 
> All best,
> James
> 
> On 2013-09-09 6:32 AM, Lynn-Marie & Brewster wrote:
>> On October 1, 1943, LD, Eve and their friends the Gotches moved into the
>> house at 17 (now 19) rue Maamoun in Moharrem Bey.
>> On May 30, 1945 LD traveled to Rhodes from Alexandria on a scouting
>> mission. He returned to Alex on June 9/10. He and Eve departed Alex in
>> mid-July and landed on Rhodes July 19.
>> This information is readily available in my "A Chronology of the Life
>> and Times of Lawrence Durrell."
>>       Brewster
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From sumantranag at gmail.com  Wed Sep 11 07:43:05 2013
From: sumantranag at gmail.com (Sumantra Nag)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:13:05 +0530
Subject: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 77,
	Issue 2_Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria home to be demolished by
	Kirsten Reach
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I have sent the following message by Twitter: 

 

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? "Durrell resided in this building in Moharram Bey from 1942 to 1956."
Durrell left Alexandria in 1945

 

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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.

 

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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.

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

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> From: clawson at gmail.com

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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>
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>
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, ( <mailto:clawsonj at gram.edu> clawsonj at gram.edu) by Oct.
1, 2013. Final 

> presentations should be limited to 20 minutes in length.

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> From: "Lynn-Marie & Brewster" <sunrisedriven at gmail.com>

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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

> < <mailto:robin.w.collins at gmail.com> 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/author/kirsten-reach/>

> >

> > < <http://www.mhpbooks.com/?attachment_id=92149>
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>
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.20913559>
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> 9148758.52840.100001569598298&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/>
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-anym>
http://www.mhpbooks.com/cops-trashing-books-not-just-for-the-nypd-anym

> ore/>

> 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->
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-lawrenc

> e-durrells-moharram-bey-home

> >

> >

> > Via my iPhone

> > Typos are their fault. I can spell.

> >

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> Message: 4

> 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> 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/author/kirsten-reach/>

> >

> >     < <http://www.mhpbooks.com/?attachment_id=92149>
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-lawr
ence-durrell>
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4720/the-art-of-fiction-no-23-lawre
nce-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.2091355991487
58.52840.100001569598298&type=1&theater>
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8.52840.100001569598298&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/46079
04>
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4>

> 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/>
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-alexa
ndria-pictures>
http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/mar/22/lawrence-durrell-alexan
dria-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-dur
rells-moharram-bey-home>
http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/60459816305/with-news-of-lawrence-durr
ells-moharram-bey-home

> >

> >

> >     Via my iPhone

> >     Typos are their fault. I can spell.

> >

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Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:49:02 -0700

From: James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>

To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca

Subject: Re: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 77,     Issue 1_Durrell's residence

                in Alexandria

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Durrell left in 1945 for Rhodes.  I think he arrived in 1941 or early 

'42, but I'd need to actually check.  Stephanides has an interesting 

account of the Luna hotel for refugees in /Autumn Gleanings/.  Fort this 

particular story, I'm inclined to think that newspapers aren't known for 

reliable data, nor news in general -- however, the publicity is good, so 

I'm not personally inclined to be too critical...

 

I'd have to double check, but the next visit to Egypt was near to 1977.

 

Good to see you're all noticing this event, sad as it is!

 

Best,

James

 

On 2013-09-08 9:29 PM, Sumantra Nag wrote:

> 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

> 

> Sent from my Samsung Tablet

> 

 

 

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Message: 3

Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 10:31:45 +0530

From: Sumantra Nag <sumantranag at gmail.com>

To: odos.fanourios at gmail.com, ilds at lists.uvic.ca

Subject: Re: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 77,     Issue 1_Durrell's residence

                in Alexandria

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James,

 

Yes, as far as I know Durrell made his next visit in 1977 and wrote about

it. I got his article about that trip from the Net.

 

Just a thought - would it not be negligent for the ILDS to allow a major

inaccuracy about the period of Durrell's residence in Alexandria to pass

uncorrected on its page? You could perhaps send a discreet clarification?

 

Best wishes

 

Sumantra

 

Sent from my Samsung Tablet

On 9 Sep 2013 10:19, "James Gifford" < <mailto:james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:

 

> Durrell left in 1945 for Rhodes.  I think he arrived in 1941 or early '42,

> but I'd need to actually check.  Stephanides has an interesting account of

> the Luna hotel for refugees in /Autumn Gleanings/.  Fort this particular

> story, I'm inclined to think that newspapers aren't known for reliable

> data, nor news in general -- however, the publicity is good, so I'm not

> personally inclined to be too critical...

> 

> I'd have to double check, but the next visit to Egypt was near to 1977.

> 

> Good to see you're all noticing this event, sad as it is!

> 

> Best,

> James

> 

> On 2013-09-08 9:29 PM, Sumantra Nag wrote:

> 

>> 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

>> 

>> Sent from my Samsung Tablet

>> 

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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:21:12 +0530

From: sharbanibm <sharbanibm at gmail.com>

To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca

Subject: Re: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 77,     Issue 1_Durrell's residence

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I agree with Sumantra, as Durrell could not have stayed at Alexandria that

long. His biography by Ian MacNiven may also be consulted for confirmation.

Sharbani Banerjee Mukherjd

On Sep 9, 2013 5:32 AM, "Sumantra Nag" < <mailto:sumantranag at gmail.com>
sumantranag at gmail.com> wrote:

 

> James,

> 

> Yes, as far as I know Durrell made his next visit in 1977 and wrote about

> it. I got his article about that trip from the Net.

> 

> Just a thought - would it not be negligent for the ILDS to allow a major

> inaccuracy about the period of Durrell's residence in Alexandria to pass

> uncorrected on its page? You could perhaps send a discreet clarification?

> 

> Best wishes

> 

> Sumantra

> 

> Sent from my Samsung Tablet

> On 9 Sep 2013 10:19, "James Gifford" < <mailto:james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:

> 

>> Durrell left in 1945 for Rhodes.  I think he arrived in 1941 or early

>> '42, but I'd need to actually check.  Stephanides has an interesting

>> account of the Luna hotel for refugees in /Autumn Gleanings/.  Fort this

>> particular story, I'm inclined to think that newspapers aren't known for

>> reliable data, nor news in general -- however, the publicity is good, so

>> I'm not personally inclined to be too critical...

>> 

>> I'd have to double check, but the next visit to Egypt was near to 1977.

>> 

>> Good to see you're all noticing this event, sad as it is!

>> 

>> Best,

>> James

>> 

>> On 2013-09-08 9:29 PM, Sumantra Nag wrote:

>> 

>>> 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

>>> 

>>> Sent from my Samsung Tablet

>>> 

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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:32:20 -0400

From: "Lynn-Marie & Brewster" <sunrisedriven at gmail.com>

To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca

Subject: Re: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol 77,     Issue 1_Durrell's residence

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On October 1, 1943, LD, Eve and their friends the Gotches moved into the

house at 17 (now 19) rue Maamoun in Moharrem Bey.

On May 30, 1945 LD traveled to Rhodes from Alexandria on a scouting

mission. He returned to Alex on June 9/10. He and Eve departed Alex in

mid-July and landed on Rhodes July 19.

This information is readily available in my "A Chronology of the Life and

Times of Lawrence Durrell."

      Brewster

 

 

 

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Sumantra Nag <
<mailto:sumantranag at gmail.com> sumantranag at gmail.com> wrote:

 

> 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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>>    1. Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be demolished

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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

>>       (Marc Piel)

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>> Message: 1

>> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:46:34 -0400

>> From: "Robin.W.Collins" <robin.w.collins at gmail.com>

>> To: "ilds at lists.uvic.ca" <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>

>> 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.

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> 

>>
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rells-moharram-bey-home>
http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/60459816305/with-news-of-lawrence-durr
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>> Via my iPhone

>> Typos are their fault. I can spell.

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>> Message: 2

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>> From: clawson at gmail.com

>> To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca

>> Subject: [ilds] CFP for Louisville Conference

>> Message-ID: <8A06EBC2-95E1-4A6F-BAF3-41D4A931A4A3 at gmail.com>

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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>
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>
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, ( <mailto:clawsonj at gram.edu> clawsonj at gram.edu) by Oct.
1, 2013. Final

>> presentations should be limited to 20 minutes in length.

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>> Message: 3

>> 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

>>         demolished

>> Message-ID:

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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

>> < <mailto:robin.w.collins at gmail.com> 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/author/kirsten-reach/>

>> >

>> > < <http://www.mhpbooks.com/?attachment_id=92149>
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-lawr
ence-durrell>
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4720/the-art-of-fiction-no-23-lawre
nce-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.2091355991487
58.52840.100001569598298&type=1&theater>
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8.52840.100001569598298&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/46079
04>
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/durrell-miller/460790
4

>> >

>> >  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/>
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-alexa
ndria-pictures>
http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/mar/22/lawrence-durrell-alexan
dria-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-dur
rells-moharram-bey-home>
http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/60459816305/with-news-of-lawrence-durr
ells-moharram-bey-home

>> >

>> >

>> > Via my iPhone

>> > Typos are their fault. I can spell.

>> >

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>> Message: 4

>> 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

>>         demolished

>> Message-ID: <522CB048.8050200 at marcpiel.fr>

>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed"

>> 

>> 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> 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/author/kirsten-reach/>

>> >

>> >     < <http://www.mhpbooks.com/?attachment_id=92149>
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-lawr
ence-durrell>
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4720/the-art-of-fiction-no-23-lawre
nce-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.2091355991487
58.52840.100001569598298&type=1&theater>
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>> >.

>> >

>> >     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/46079
04>
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/durrell-miller/460790
4>

>> 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/>
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-alexa
ndria-pictures>
http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/mar/22/lawrence-durrell-alexan
dria-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-dur
rells-moharram-bey-home>
http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/60459816305/with-news-of-lawrence-durr
ells-moharram-bey-home

>> >

>> >

>> >     Via my iPhone

>> >     Typos are their fault. I can spell.

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From: sumantranag at gmail.com (Sumantra Nag)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:33:13 +0530
Subject: [ilds] Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria home to be demolished by
	Kirsten Reach
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria home to be demolished by Kirsten
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I have sent the following message by Twitter: 

 

Sumantra Nag?@stoutcortez 

@melvillehouse
http://www.mhpbooks.com/lawrence-durrells-alexandria-home-to-be-demolished/
? "Durrell resided in this building in Moharram Bey from 1942 to 1956."
Durrell left Alexandria in 1945

 

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> Message: 3

> 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

>         demolished

> 

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

> Brewster

> 

> 

> 

> Message: 4

> 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

>         demolished

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> I was surprised that nobody had said anything and even more today as 

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> Is the whole list still sleeping off London 2012?

> @+

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From: sunrisedriven at gmail.com (Lynn-Marie & Brewster)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:27:59 -0400
Subject: [ilds] Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria home to be demolished by
 Kirsten Reach
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Dear Colleagues,
Please note that I have sent Melville House a detailed response to the
errors in Kirsten Reach's article. Since I do not twitter I sent it via the
old fashioned postal system.
Brewster


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Sumantra Nag <sumantranag at gmail.com> wrote:

> Subject: RE: Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria home to be demolished by
> Kirsten Reach****
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> I have sent the following message by Twitter: ****
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> Sumantra Nag at stoutcortez ****
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> @melvillehouse
> http://www.mhpbooks.com/lawrence-durrells-alexandria-home-to-be-demolished/? "Durrell resided in this building in Moharram Bey from 1942 to 1956."
> Durrell left Alexandria in 1945****
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> > Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:41:56 -0400****
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> > From: "Lynn-Marie & Brewster" <sunrisedriven at gmail.com>****
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> > To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca****
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> > I someone going to correct the errors in the article?****
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> > Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:13:44 +0200****
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> > From: Marc Piel <marc at marcpiel.fr>****
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> > To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca****
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> > Subject: Re: [ilds] Lawrence Durrell?s Alexandria home to be****
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> >         demolished****
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From gammage.kennedy at gmail.com  Thu Sep 12 07:38:17 2013
From: gammage.kennedy at gmail.com (Ken Gammage)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:38:17 -0700
Subject: [ilds] 100 Year Milestone for Cendrars
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I just noticed it?s a major centennial for Miller and Durrell?s friend
Blaise Cendrars ? 100 years since the publication of his epic poem ?Prose
du Transsib?rien et de la petite Jeanne de France? (1913). This brief 16
line excerpt appears to be an eyewitness account of 1905 Russo-Japanese War:



*I saw*

*I saw the silent trains the black trains returning from the Far East and
passing like phantoms*

*And my eye, like a rear signal light, is still running along behind those
trains*

*At Talga 100,000 wounded were dying for lack of care*

*I visited the hospitals of Krasnoyarsk*

*And at Khilok we encountered a long convoy of soldiers who had lost their
minds*

*In the pest houses I saw gaping wounds bleeding full blast*

*And amputated limbs danced about or took flight into the raucous air*

*Fire was on all the faces in all the hearts*

*Idiot fingers rapped on all the windowpanes*

*And in the press of fear glances burst open like abscesses*

*In all the stations where all the cars were burning*

*And I saw*

*I saw trains with 60 engines fleeing at top speed pursued by flaming
horizons and by flocks of crows flying desperately after them*

*Disappearing*

*In the direction of Port Arthur.*



Powerful writing, quoted from the New Directions Paperback Blaise Cendrars
SELECTED WRITINGS.



Thanks - Ken
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From sumantranag at gmail.com  Thu Sep 12 08:02:09 2013
From: sumantranag at gmail.com (Sumantra Nag)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:32:09 +0530
Subject: [ilds] Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria home to be demolished by
 Kirsten Reach
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Dear Brewster,

Good! I felt that this - rather unexpected - error should be pointed out
clearly and also corrected somewhere.

An E-mail would have been a good option but I found only one general Email
address for Melville and felt that a message by Twitter might be more
focussed and quick.

Regards

Sumantra

Sent from my Samsung Tablet
On 12 Sep 2013 19:59, "Lynn-Marie & Brewster" <sunrisedriven at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> Please note that I have sent Melville House a detailed response to the
> errors in Kirsten Reach's article. Since I do not twitter I sent it via the
> old fashioned postal system.
> Brewster
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Sumantra Nag <sumantranag at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Subject: RE: Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria home to be demolished by
>> Kirsten Reach****
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ****
>>
>> I have sent the following message by Twitter: ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Sumantra Nag at stoutcortez ****
>>
>> @melvillehouse
>> http://www.mhpbooks.com/lawrence-durrells-alexandria-home-to-be-demolished/? "Durrell resided in this building in Moharram Bey from 1942 to 1956."
>> Durrell left Alexandria in 1945****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> > ------------------------------****
>>
>> >** **
>>
>> > Message: 3****
>>
>> > 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****
>>
>> >         demolished****
>>
>> >** **
>>
>> > I someone going to correct the errors in the article?****
>>
>> > Brewster****
>>
>> >** **
>>
>> >** **
>>
>> >** **
>>
>> > Message: 4****
>>
>> > 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****
>>
>> >         demolished****
>>
>> > Message-ID: <522CB048.8050200 at marcpiel.fr>****
>>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed"****
>>
>> >** **
>>
>> > 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****
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ILDS mailing list
>> ILDS at lists.uvic.ca
>> https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds
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