From gammage.kennedy at gmail.com Fri May 25 16:19:24 2018 From: gammage.kennedy at gmail.com (Kennedy Gammage) Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 16:19:24 -0700 Subject: [ilds] LD IS ALIVE AND WELL IN DL15 Message-ID: Kudos to Anna Lillios for bringing out another number of DEUS LOCI. It?s a stimulating read for Durrell fans as always. Isabell Keller-Privat kicks off the essays with ALCHEMICAL DISTORTIONS IN LAWRENCE DURRELL?S ALEXANDRIA QUARTET which sends us to Clea and Capodistria?s tale of the homunculi from roughly p. 190 of my Washington Square Press paperback. Samuel Kessler follows with ?A MIGHTY SHIFTY STRANGENESS?: TIME, MEMORY AND NARRATIVE IN DURRELL?S AVIGNON QUINTET where he investigates ?questions about time, the writing and recording of memory, and the quest to convey meaning and experience in literary fiction.? I always welcome new perspectives on the Quintet and there are several in this volume. There?s a typo at the bottom of page 22: ??the ?real? Hilary, Livia, Constance, and Sebastian? ? that last name should be Sam. Ultimately Kessler concludes that AQII is ?a prose-poem about the relationship between time, history and memory.? I disagree when he says ?Monsieur is to be that center, the point that transforms it from a square to a quincunx.? In his notes on page 37 he quotes A.S. Byatt marveling at how ?brave? Durrell was for ?inventing a novelist who was writing a novel about a character and then making that novelist walk into the character as if both these people were now in the same story.? I guess she didn?t read much science fiction. Check out Herovit?s World by Barry N. Malzberg (Random House 1973.) Next up: THE ROLE OF LIVIA IN THE AVIGNON QUINTET by C. Ravindran Nambiar. Interesting ? such an enigmatic character. The dark-haired girl who gives Blanford a chubby when she says ?Oh. You are a poet? and the haunted one-eyed Nazi are the same person. In the first of two articles on the subject, MORE BITTER LEMONS: GEORGE TARDIO?S POEM ?AFTER THE LEMONS? by Petra Tourney-Theodotou, she quotes Seferis?s poem ?In the Kyrenia District? ? which is a poem about Durrell! Really enjoyed his tone of voice ? no wonder he won the Nobel Prize. I almost feel moved to stand up for Durrell. As Curley Howard might say, he was a victim of circumstance. Did LD really ignore the entreaties of his blind acquaintance Clitos to help him find a doctor? Everyone seems to think so. I really enjoyed UNHOMELY, UNCANNY, UNMODERN? FINDING A HOME FOR THE AVIGNON QUINTET by James Clawson. I hadn?t thought about it, that the rotten houses symbolized the rot of the world during the lead-up to and then WWII. And I had completely missed this Felix Chatto (i.e. happy house) quest to find the lost chateau Bravedent! There is always more to discover re-reading Durrell. Kudos to Diane Vipond for rising above the ?postmodern? orthodoxy to label the Quintet uncanny. But those of us who grew up during the ?new wave? of 1960s? SF would advise you to call it Speculative Fiction ? the preferred marriage of science-fiction and fantasy of the time. Please take another look at my own OMG paper on the Quintet, published by Paul Herron in A Caf? in Space volume 9, 2012. MINORITY IN PERSPECTIVE: LAWRENCE DURRELL?S BITTER LEMONS AND THE CYPRUS PROBLEM by Barish Ali starts with a recap of the latest history of the political stalemate on the island ? which made me suddenly realize: ?Durrell didn?t cause it!? Interesting what happens when you write an enduring book like this: it make?s Durrell?s story larger (and longer) than his own life. It put a big target on his back, right? Colonialist! Propagandist! Ali does a great job focusing the discussion and then pulling back to a wider perspective. Love the cartoon on page 95. That was interesting, Don Kaczvinsky pointing out the similarity between the two schoolmasters, Durrell (on Cyprus) and his character Darley. In retrospect, it?s funny but absurd that the English considered the Cypriots to be British. One hopes for future peace there. The POETRY is uniformly excellent as usual. Funny that everyone chose the theme of ?Drink? to refer to alcohol. Not sure you need a theme next time. REVIEWS featured Gifford?s FROM THE ELEPHANT?S BACK and PERSONAL MODERNISMS, MacNiven?s biography of James Laughlin the publisher of New Directions, Ravindran?s Indian Metaphysics, Clawson?s Crossing the Liminal ? so a lot of ?log-rolling? going on. Grove Koger?s Bibliography 2003-06 is heartening. The amount of Durrell translations is amazing. MY FINAL PRAYER: Re-reading the beginning of Marine Venus ? so beautifully written? WHO KNOWS SOMEONE AT FABER? PUT OUT A SMALL SPECIAL RUN OF UNCUT MV WITHOUT THE RIDLER EDITS. I WILL BUY 2. Efkharisto! KENNEDY GAMMAGE PROUD MEMBER [ILDS] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marc at marcpiel.fr Sat May 26 07:43:37 2018 From: marc at marcpiel.fr (MarcPiel) Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 16:43:37 +0200 Subject: [ilds] LD IS ALIVE AND WELL IN DL15 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4F154FC0-7ADD-48BD-A112-BBBBF97F2651@marcpiel.fr> Many thanks.LD lives on Envoy? de mon iPad Le 26 mai 2018 ? 01:19, Kennedy Gammage a ?crit : Kudos to Anna Lillios for bringing out another number of DEUS LOCI. It?s a stimulating read for Durrell fans as always. Isabell Keller-Privat kicks off the essays with ALCHEMICAL DISTORTIONS IN LAWRENCE DURRELL?S ALEXANDRIA QUARTET which sends us to Clea and Capodistria?s tale of the homunculi from roughly p. 190 of my Washington Square Press paperback. Samuel Kessler follows with ?A MIGHTY SHIFTY STRANGENESS?: TIME, MEMORY AND NARRATIVE IN DURRELL?S AVIGNON QUINTET where he investigates ?questions about time, the writing and recording of memory, and the quest to convey meaning and experience in literary fiction.? I always welcome new perspectives on the Quintet and there are several in this volume. There?s a typo at the bottom of page 22: ??the ?real? Hilary, Livia, Constance, and Sebastian? ? that last name should be Sam. Ultimately Kessler concludes that AQII is ?a prose-poem about the relationship between time, history and memory.? I disagree when he says ?Monsieur is to be that center, the point that transforms it from a square to a quincunx.? In his notes on page 37 he quotes A.S. Byatt marveling at how ?brave? Durrell was for ?inventing a novelist who was writing a novel about a character and then making that novelist walk into the character as if both these people were now in the same story.? I guess she didn?t read much science fiction. Check out Herovit?s World by Barry N. Malzberg (Random House 1973.) Next up: THE ROLE OF LIVIA IN THE AVIGNON QUINTET by C. Ravindran Nambiar. Interesting ? such an enigmatic character. The dark-haired girl who gives Blanford a chubby when she says ?Oh. You are a poet? and the haunted one-eyed Nazi are the same person. In the first of two articles on the subject, MORE BITTER LEMONS: GEORGE TARDIO?S POEM ?AFTER THE LEMONS? by Petra Tourney-Theodotou, she quotes Seferis?s poem ?In the Kyrenia District? ? which is a poem about Durrell! Really enjoyed his tone of voice ? no wonder he won the Nobel Prize. I almost feel moved to stand up for Durrell. As Curley Howard might say, he was a victim of circumstance. Did LD really ignore the entreaties of his blind acquaintance Clitos to help him find a doctor? Everyone seems to think so. I really enjoyed UNHOMELY, UNCANNY, UNMODERN? FINDING A HOME FOR THE AVIGNON QUINTET by James Clawson. I hadn?t thought about it, that the rotten houses symbolized the rot of the world during the lead-up to and then WWII. And I had completely missed this Felix Chatto (i.e. happy house) quest to find the lost chateau Bravedent! There is always more to discover re-reading Durrell. Kudos to Diane Vipond for rising above the ?postmodern? orthodoxy to label the Quintet uncanny. But those of us who grew up during the ?new wave? of 1960s? SF would advise you to call it Speculative Fiction ? the preferred marriage of science-fiction and fantasy of the time. Please take another look at my own OMG paper on the Quintet, published by Paul Herron in A Caf? in Space volume 9, 2012. MINORITY IN PERSPECTIVE: LAWRENCE DURRELL?S BITTER LEMONS AND THE CYPRUS PROBLEM by Barish Ali starts with a recap of the latest history of the political stalemate on the island ? which made me suddenly realize: ?Durrell didn?t cause it!? Interesting what happens when you write an enduring book like this: it make?s Durrell?s story larger (and longer) than his own life. It put a big target on his back, right? Colonialist! Propagandist! Ali does a great job focusing the discussion and then pulling back to a wider perspective. Love the cartoon on page 95. That was interesting, Don Kaczvinsky pointing out the similarity between the two schoolmasters, Durrell (on Cyprus) and his character Darley. In retrospect, it?s funny but absurd that the English considered the Cypriots to be British. One hopes for future peace there. The POETRY is uniformly excellent as usual. Funny that everyone chose the theme of ?Drink? to refer to alcohol. Not sure you need a theme next time. REVIEWS featured Gifford?s FROM THE ELEPHANT?S BACK and PERSONAL MODERNISMS, MacNiven?s biography of James Laughlin the publisher of New Directions, Ravindran?s Indian Metaphysics, Clawson?s Crossing the Liminal ? so a lot of ?log-rolling? going on. Grove Koger?s Bibliography 2003-06 is heartening. The amount of Durrell translations is amazing. MY FINAL PRAYER: Re-reading the beginning of Marine Venus ? so beautifully written? WHO KNOWS SOMEONE AT FABER? PUT OUT A SMALL SPECIAL RUN OF UNCUT MV WITHOUT THE RIDLER EDITS. I WILL BUY 2. Efkharisto! KENNEDY GAMMAGE PROUD MEMBER [ILDS] _______________________________________________ ILDS mailing list ILDS at lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds From delospeter at hotmail.com Sun May 27 01:19:30 2018 From: delospeter at hotmail.com (PETER BALDWIN) Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 08:19:30 +0000 Subject: [ilds] LD very much alive in this new collection Message-ID: Delos Press in conjunction with Colenso Books are pleased to announce that Fruitful Discontent of the Word: a further collection of poems by Lawrence Durrell is now available. Enquiries to: colensobooks at gmail.com I attach a publicity flyer. Essentially, the collection brings together Durrell's later poetry published after the terminus ad quem of the 1980 Collected Poems. Durrell, in my view, not only recovered his earlier poetic muse in these later poems but also gave us significant insights into his later, Quintet period, thinking. Peter Baldwin [Delos Press] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Fruitful Discontent A4 flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 882839 bytes Desc: Fruitful Discontent A4 flyer.pdf URL: From delospeter at hotmail.com Sun May 27 01:11:00 2018 From: delospeter at hotmail.com (PETER BALDWIN) Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 08:11:00 +0000 Subject: [ilds] LD IS ALIVE AND WELL IN DL15 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wow - a feats for all. May I suggest that the social media used by ILDS announces the publication of DL - perhaps with a contents list to tempt non-subscribers to DL. Any idea when overseas copies will arrive, UK [my base] in particular? Peter ________________________________ From: ILDS on behalf of Kennedy Gammage Sent: 25 May 2018 23:19 To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca Subject: [ilds] LD IS ALIVE AND WELL IN DL15 Kudos to Anna Lillios for bringing out another number of DEUS LOCI. It?s a stimulating read for Durrell fans as always. Isabell Keller-Privat kicks off the essays with ALCHEMICAL DISTORTIONS IN LAWRENCE DURRELL?S ALEXANDRIA QUARTET which sends us to Clea and Capodistria?s tale of the homunculi from roughly p. 190 of my Washington Square Press paperback. Samuel Kessler follows with ?A MIGHTY SHIFTY STRANGENESS?: TIME, MEMORY AND NARRATIVE IN DURRELL?S AVIGNON QUINTET where he investigates ?questions about time, the writing and recording of memory, and the quest to convey meaning and experience in literary fiction.? I always welcome new perspectives on the Quintet and there are several in this volume. There?s a typo at the bottom of page 22: ??the ?real? Hilary, Livia, Constance, and Sebastian? ? that last name should be Sam. Ultimately Kessler concludes that AQII is ?a prose-poem about the relationship between time, history and memory.? I disagree when he says ?Monsieur is to be that center, the point that transforms it from a square to a quincunx.? In his notes on page 37 he quotes A.S. Byatt marveling at how ?brave? Durrell was for ?inventing a novelist who was writing a novel about a character and then making that novelist walk into the character as if both these people were now in the same story.? I guess she didn?t read much science fiction. Check out Herovit?s World by Barry N. Malzberg (Random House 1973.) Next up: THE ROLE OF LIVIA IN THE AVIGNON QUINTET by C. Ravindran Nambiar. Interesting ? such an enigmatic character. The dark-haired girl who gives Blanford a chubby when she says ?Oh. You are a poet? and the haunted one-eyed Nazi are the same person. In the first of two articles on the subject, MORE BITTER LEMONS: GEORGE TARDIO?S POEM ?AFTER THE LEMONS? by Petra Tourney-Theodotou, she quotes Seferis?s poem ?In the Kyrenia District? ? which is a poem about Durrell! Really enjoyed his tone of voice ? no wonder he won the Nobel Prize. I almost feel moved to stand up for Durrell. As Curley Howard might say, he was a victim of circumstance. Did LD really ignore the entreaties of his blind acquaintance Clitos to help him find a doctor? Everyone seems to think so. I really enjoyed UNHOMELY, UNCANNY, UNMODERN? FINDING A HOME FOR THE AVIGNON QUINTET by James Clawson. I hadn?t thought about it, that the rotten houses symbolized the rot of the world during the lead-up to and then WWII. And I had completely missed this Felix Chatto (i.e. happy house) quest to find the lost chateau Bravedent! There is always more to discover re-reading Durrell. Kudos to Diane Vipond for rising above the ?postmodern? orthodoxy to label the Quintet uncanny. But those of us who grew up during the ?new wave? of 1960s? SF would advise you to call it Speculative Fiction ? the preferred marriage of science-fiction and fantasy of the time. Please take another look at my own OMG paper on the Quintet, published by Paul Herron in A Caf? in Space volume 9, 2012. MINORITY IN PERSPECTIVE: LAWRENCE DURRELL?S BITTER LEMONS AND THE CYPRUS PROBLEM by Barish Ali starts with a recap of the latest history of the political stalemate on the island ? which made me suddenly realize: ?Durrell didn?t cause it!? Interesting what happens when you write an enduring book like this: it make?s Durrell?s story larger (and longer) than his own life. It put a big target on his back, right? Colonialist! Propagandist! Ali does a great job focusing the discussion and then pulling back to a wider perspective. Love the cartoon on page 95. That was interesting, Don Kaczvinsky pointing out the similarity between the two schoolmasters, Durrell (on Cyprus) and his character Darley. In retrospect, it?s funny but absurd that the English considered the Cypriots to be British. One hopes for future peace there. The POETRY is uniformly excellent as usual. Funny that everyone chose the theme of ?Drink? to refer to alcohol. Not sure you need a theme next time. REVIEWS featured Gifford?s FROM THE ELEPHANT?S BACK and PERSONAL MODERNISMS, MacNiven?s biography of James Laughlin the publisher of New Directions, Ravindran?s Indian Metaphysics, Clawson?s Crossing the Liminal ? so a lot of ?log-rolling? going on. Grove Koger?s Bibliography 2003-06 is heartening. The amount of Durrell translations is amazing. MY FINAL PRAYER: Re-reading the beginning of Marine Venus ? so beautifully written? WHO KNOWS SOMEONE AT FABER? PUT OUT A SMALL SPECIAL RUN OF UNCUT MV WITHOUT THE RIDLER EDITS. I WILL BUY 2. Efkharisto! KENNEDY GAMMAGE PROUD MEMBER [ILDS] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dtart at bigpond.net.au Sun May 27 13:28:51 2018 From: dtart at bigpond.net.au (Denise Tart & David Green) Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 06:28:51 +1000 Subject: [ilds] LD very much alive in this new collection In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I found a copy of Vega recently. These are late period poems by LD and very good I think. I imagine this anthology will include the Vega poems. David Sent from my iPad > On 27 May 2018, at 6:19 pm, PETER BALDWIN wrote: > > Delos Press in conjunction with Colenso Books are pleased to announce that Fruitful Discontent of the Word: a further collection of poems by Lawrence Durrell is now available. Enquiries to: > > colensobooks at gmail.com > > I attach a publicity flyer. > > Essentially, the collection brings together Durrell's later poetry published after the terminus ad quem of the 1980 Collected Poems. Durrell, in my view, not only recovered his earlier poetic muse in these later poems but also gave us significant insights into his later, Quintet period, thinking. > > Peter Baldwin > [Delos Press] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From delospeter at hotmail.com Sun May 27 14:39:35 2018 From: delospeter at hotmail.com (PETER BALDWIN) Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 21:39:35 +0000 Subject: [ilds] LD very much alive in this new collection In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: No / the Vega poems are in the 1980 Collected. This new book focusses on poems after Vega as the flyer makes clear. Envoy? de mon iPhone Le 27 mai 2018 ? 22:34, Denise Tart & David Green > a ?crit : I found a copy of Vega recently. These are late period poems by LD and very good I think. I imagine this anthology will include the Vega poems. David Sent from my iPad On 27 May 2018, at 6:19 pm, PETER BALDWIN > wrote: Delos Press in conjunction with Colenso Books are pleased to announce that Fruitful Discontent of the Word: a further collection of poems by Lawrence Durrell is now available. Enquiries to: colensobooks at gmail.com I attach a publicity flyer. Essentially, the collection brings together Durrell's later poetry published after the terminus ad quem of the 1980 Collected Poems. Durrell, in my view, not only recovered his earlier poetic muse in these later poems but also gave us significant insights into his later, Quintet period, thinking. 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