[ilds] Durrell's Angst

[Bruce Redwine]

Richard’s description of Durrell’s “angst” is another way to say, “You can’t go home again.”

Bruce



> On Nov 19, 2015, at 1:42 AM, mail at durrelllibrarycorfu.org wrote:
> 
> To the quedtion of LD's putative return to India, we must bear in mind that he felt it was not a good idea to revisit a place where one had been happy. But he told me (and this was confirmed to me by Raymond Mills) that when Raymond Mills was stationed in (I think) Nepal (this would have been in the late 1970s) there was some question of LD being invited to Northern India on a British Council tour which never materialised. So it's possible that he might have been able to overcome the angst (for I'm sure that is what it was) of returning to a much-loved place. His misgivings about returning to Corfu in the 1960s (when the Athanasios family were already undertaking the commercialisation which has overtaken the place today) were expressed in the essay "Oil for the Saint"
> RP

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