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Sto caricando le informazioni... Blue thirst (1975)di Lawrence Durrell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Transcripts of two lectures Durrell gave, one on his time in Greece before WWII and one on his time in the diplomatic service. Nothing deep here, but Durrell's reminiscences are entertaining and it was lovely to see him praise his "insect-mad" brother Gerald and his writing. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century's most mesmerizing speakersLawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero's Cell, was no more. In the first of this pair of lectures, given during a 1970s visit to California, Durrell recalls those days, talking of family, poetry, and the joy of the islands as no other writer can.When war came to the Mediterranean, Durrell was swept into diplomatic service, an adventure he recounts in his second lecture. Though a diplomat of the modern world, he served under men whose experience stretched back to the days before the telephone, when solutions for crises had to be devised by the ambassador, and not phoned in from London. These two lectures on long-vanished worlds are an elegant demonstration of the evocative power of Durrell's unmatched storytelling. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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