DURRELL 2012 THE CENTENARY

13 – 16 JUNE 2012 GOODENOUGH COLLEGE THE BRITISH LIBRARY LONDON

Greek Village Cover Art for SONGS ABOUT [Jupiter Recordings :: 1964] Oscar Epfs [Lawrence Durrell]

DURRELL 2012 :: THE LAWRENCE DURRELL CENTENARY

Lawrence George Durrell Born :: 27 February 1912 :: Jalandhar Died :: 7 November 1990 :: Sommières

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WEDNESDAY, 13 JUNE 2012 THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2012

6.30 PM 8.00 AM (All Day) Special Exhibition & Opening Reception Conference Registration (Vestibule, London House, Goodenough College) The Gallery @ Foyles Books 113-119 Charing Cross Road Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule

Evening free 8.30 AM :: Welcome / Opening Remarks

“The agon then. It begins. Today there is a (Large Common Room) gale blowing up from the Levant… The James Gifford President, International Lawrence winter Ionian has lapsed back into its Durrell Society original secrecy…” 1 THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2012 (Cont’d) IIb (Small Common Room) Chair: William L. Godshalk (University of 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Sessions Cincinnati)

Ia (Large Common Room) • Aba-Carina Parlog (West University of Chair: James Clawson, (Grambling State Timisoara, Romania), “Lawrence Durrell’s University) Elusive Narratives: The Alexandrian Universe” • Amber Rose (Independent Scholar), • Anna Lillios (University of Central Florida), “Unraveling the Human Chessboard of The “The Essence of Englishness in Lawrence Alexandria Quartet” Durrell’s ” • Barry Fruchter (Nassau Community College), “: Nostalgia for the First Time” 12.15 PM – 1.00 PM :: Break for Lunch • Julia Gordon-Bramer (Lindenwood University), (Great Hall) “‘A Secret’ Well-Kept: Sylvia Plath’s Tribute to Working Lunches provided for registered attendees Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet”

Ib (Small Common Room) 1.00 PM – 2.30 PM :: Parallel Sessions Chair: James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University) IIIa (Large Common Room) Chair: Anne R. Zahlan (Eastern Illinois • Helen Wussow (Simon Fraser University), University) “Sexual Tourism in Homer & Durrell” • Michael Heinze (Heinrich Heine University, • Dianne Vipond (California State University, Duesseldorf), “Greeks, Italians, and Turks: Long Beach), “Exploring the Uncanny in Multicultural Post-War through the Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet.” Eyes of Lawrence Durrell” • James Clawson (Grambling State University), • Petra Tournay-Theodotou (European “Bravedent! Contextualizing the Uncanny.” University ), “The Empire Writes Back: • Alice Cheylan (Université du Sud Toulon- Two Counter-Discursive Responses to Var), “Translation or Creation: Lawrence Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons – Costas Durrell’s Use of French in The Avignon Quintet” Montis’s Closed Doors and Rodis Roufos’s The Age of Bronze” IIIb (Small Common Room) Chair: Don Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University) 10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Sessions • Biljana Djoric Francuski (University of IIa (Large Common Room) Belgrade), “Lawrence Durrell’s Humour in the Chair: Dianne Vipond (California State Antrobus Stories” University, Long Beach) • Ravi Nambiar (Independent Scholar), “J. Krishnamurthi in Durrell’s Works: A Critical • Linda Rashidi (Mansfield University of Study” Pennsylvania), “The Black Book as Starter Novel” • Richard August (University of Manchester), “Arguments Over ‘Everything’: Lawrence Durrell & The London Psychogeographical “All our religions falter, you Tradition” remain, small sunburnt deus loci…” • Paul Lorenz (University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), “The Metamorphosis of London in the Writing of Lawrence Durrell”

2 2.45 PM – 4.00 PM :: Special Session FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2012

IV (Large Common Room) 8.30 AM (All Day) Chair: Charles Sligh (University of Tennessee at Conference Registration (Vestibule, London Chattanooga) House, Goodenough College)

• James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University), Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule “Durrell’s Shadow from Cairo to California: English Surrealism’s Cult of Sex & Anarchy” 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Sessions • Fiona Tomkinson (Yeditepe University), “The Va (Large Common Room) Subtlest Maze, or Durrell’s Labyrinths” Chair: James Clawson (Grambling State University) • William L. Godshalk (University of Cincinnati), “Lawrence Durrell & Francis J. Mott” • Rony Alfandary (Bar Ilan University, Israel), “The City of Alexandria as a Metaphor for Durrell’s Internalized Mother” 4.15 PM – 5.00 PM :: Plenary Session • G.R. Taneja (University of Delhi), “The City (Large Common Room) & its Metaphors: The Urban Space in Durrell” • Souad Baghli-Berbar (University Abou Bakr • Corinne Alexandre-Garner (Université Paris Belkaid, Algeria), “From Reality to Myth: Ouest Nanterre) & Isabelle Keller-Privat Alexandria in Lawrence Durrell’s ” (Université de Toulouse II), “Manufacturing Dreams – Lawrence Durrell’s Fiction Revisited Vb (Small Common Room) Through Chirico’s Metaphysical Paintings” Chair: Charles Sligh (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

5.15 PM – 6.00 PM :: Plenary Session • Peter Baldwin (Independent Publisher), (Large Common Room) “Certain Landfalls: Rare Inscriptions by Lawrence Durrell” • Anthony Hirst (Durrell School of Corfu), • Stela Ghetie (École Mondiale World School, “Einstein or Escher? – Whose ‘Relativity’ Really Mumbai), “I do not love thee with mine eyes...” Informs The Alexandria Quartet?” • Merrianne Timko (Independent Culinary Historian), “Lawrence Durrell & Elizabeth David: A Culinary Friendship” 6.00 PM – 7.15 PM :: Break

10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Sessions 7.15 PM + :: Keynote Addresses (Large Common Room) VIa (Large Common Room) Chair: Paul Lorenz (University of Arkansas at “Lawrence Durrell at 100: Durrell & The Pine Bluff) Biographer’s Art” • Ian S. MacNiven • Michael Haag • Nicoletta Demetriou (St. Antony’s College, • Joanna Hodgkin • Eleni Verhagen Oxford) “Looking for Lawrence Durrell in Cyprus” • Inna Savelyeva (Moscow Regional State Evening Free Institute for Humanities & Social Studies), “D.H. Lawrence, Lawrence Durrell, & John “Telling of the concerns of time, Fowles: British Islomania” The knife of feeling in the art of love…” • Niki Marangou (Independent Writer), “Round About Durrell in Cyprus” (cont’d page over…) 3 VIb (Small Common Room) 4.15 PM – 5.15 PM :: Publishing Durrell Chair: David Radavich (Eastern Illinois Chairs: Corinne Alexandre-Garner & Isabelle University) Keller-Privat

• Monika Fiedler (Professor Emerita, Humboldt • Anthea Morton-Saner • Peggy Fox Universität zu Berlin), “Researching Lawrence • Beatrice Commengé • Anna Davis Durrell & Egypt From Behind the Wall” • Georges Hoffman • Marc Parent • Michiko Kawano (retired, Bukkyo University), • Peter Baldwin “Romantic Durrell, Dramatized Sappho” • David Radavich (Eastern Illinois University), “A Celebration of Durrellian Poetry (Open Reading)” 5.15 PM – 6.30 PM :: Break

12.15 PM – 1.30 PM :: Break for Lunch 6.30 PM – 8.00 PM :: Lawrence Durrell in 2012 (Great Hall) Reach Upwards to the Affirming Sun Working Lunches provided for registered attendees Chair: Simon Ings

Move to The British Library Conference Centre • Nicoletta Demetriou • Simon Ings for Afternoon & Evening Events Joanna Hodgkin Andrew McKie • • “Water limps on ice, or scribbles On doors of sand its syllables…” Evening free

“Four small nouns I put to pasture,

Lambs of cloud on a green paper…” 1.30 PM – 1.40 PM :: Welcome & Introduction Durrell 2012 :: Lawrence Durrell at the British

Library :: An Afternoon of Archival Talks & Discussion Panels SATURDAY, 16 JUNE 2012

• Rachel Foss (Curator of Modern Literary 8.00 AM (Until Noon) :: Registration Manuscripts, British Library) (Vestibule, London House, Goodenough College)

Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule 1.40 PM – 2.15 PM :: An Introduction

Durrell Audio Collections in the British Library 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Sessions

VIIa (Large Common Room) Chair: Pamela J. Francis (Rice University). 3.30 PM – 4.00 PM :: Drop-in Sessions • Martha Klironomos (San Francisco State University), “Travel Practices, Writing, & 3.15 PM – 4.15 PM :: Archives Panel Photography: Comparing the Works of Patrick Chair: Rachel Foss (Curator of Modern Literary Leigh Fermor and Lawrence Durrell” Manuscripts, British Library) • Marc Woodworth (Skidmore College), “Fiding Kovecses: An Open Letter to Patrick • Université Paris Ouest Nanterre (Corinne Leigh Fermor” Alexandre-Garner) • Dan Popescu (Partium Christian University, • Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Romania), “‘In Clashing Hues’: Images of the Carbondale (Ian MacNiven & Charles Sligh) Gypsies in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the • Faber Archive (Robert Brown) Woods & the Water” (cont’d page over…) 4 VIIb (Small Common Room) 4.15 PM – 7.00 PM :: Break Chair: Don Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University) 7.00 PM + :: The Durrell Centenary Banquet • Allyson Kreuiter (University of South Africa), (Great Hall) “The Gothicized Female Form: A Visual & Textual Representation in Durrell’s ” Special Remarks on Durrell 2012: The • Biljana Djoric Francuski (University of Belgrade), Lawrence Durrell Centenary “Lawrence Durrell in Translation into Serbian” • Isabelle Tassignon-Pierart (University of • James Gifford (President, International Namur, Belgium), “Lawrence Durrell & Lawrence Durrell Society) Archaeology” • Ian S. MacNiven (Past President & Founding Member, International Lawrence Durrell Society) • Lee Durrell (Honorary Director, Durrell 10.30 AM – 11.00 AM :: Break Wildlife Conservation Trust) • Anthea Morton-Saner (Curtis Brown Group “Somewhere between Calabria and Corfu the Ltd, retired) blue really begins… But once you strike out • Susanna Nicklin (Director of Literature, British from the flat and desolate Calabrian Council) mainland towards the sea, you are aware of a • Suzanne Joinson (Writer and Literature change in the heart of things: aware of the Adviser, British Council) horizon beginning to stain at the rim of the world: aware of islands coming out of the darkness to meet you…” Keynote Address :: Lawrence Durrell at 100: Durrell & The Novelist’s Art

11.00 AM – 12.30 PM :: ILDS Business Meeting • Christopher Butler (Christ Church, Oxford), (Large Common Room) “Modernism & Rereading The Alexandria Quartet”

12.30 PM – 2.00 PM :: Break for Lunch Respondents: (Great Hall) • Sandeep Parmar (Clare Hall, Cambridge) Working Lunches provided for registered attendees • Anthony Hirst (Durrell School of Corfu) • James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University) • James Clawson (Grambling State University) 2.00 PM – 3.00 PM :: Plenary Session (Large Common Room)

• Leo Mellor (Murray Edwards College, “The cicadas are throbbing in the great Cambridge), “Durrell in Context: Interwar planes, and the summer Mediterranean lies Writers & the Cityscape of London” before me in all its magnetic blueness. Somewhere out there, beyond the mauve throbbing line of the horizon lies Africa, lies 3.15 PM – 4.15 PM :: Plenary Session Alexandria, maintaining its tenuous grasp (Large Common Room) on one’s affections through memories which are already refunding themselves slowly into • Mark Morris (University of Alberta), “In the forgetfulness…” Days of Sappho – Lawrence Durrell’s Plays, 50 Years On”

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“THE ECHOES OF JUSTINE” NOTEBOOK FOR BALTHAZAR [1957] [MORRIS LIBRARY, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE] LAWRENCE DURRELL

6 AN OPEN LETTER ON THE OCCASION OF THE DURRELL CENTENARY Françoise Kestsman-Durrell

To Everybody I know and also those I don’t know… I am so sorry not to be able to come and celebrate Larry’s memory with you. But like everybody I am becoming older and older and very tired. I know you have done a lot to prepare for this celebration, and I thank you deeply for that. But please, don’t be too academic; Try to remember him as an ordinary human being with a way of thinking and feeling that is deeply poetic. Don’t forget that first he was – he is!! – one of the greatest poets of the last century, perhaps the greatest one. Of course he is best known for his novels and travels books, but listen to his poems. It is only through his poems that one can hope to be able to feel his deep mind and sensibility. And also don’t forget his wonderful laugh – so deep, full of life and dark humour. In front of such a soul the only way to behave is to read him and to listen to the silence, full of his mind. I hope very much that you will have a great meeting, full of the joy and pleasure of togetherness, and I send a lot of thanks to each of you for being there for him.

Françoise K.D.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary expresses gratitude to Françoise Kestsman and the Estate of Lawrence Durrell for their willingness to provide necessary permissions for Centenary publications, events, and exhibitions.

Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary extends its appreciation to Ilyas Khan for his generous patronage of the Centenary events at Goodenough College.

Anna Davis, Curtis Brown Ian MacNiven Rachel Foss, British Library Isaac Sligh Rachel Alexander, Faber & Faber Stela Ghetie Miriam Robinson, Foyles Books Eleni Verhagen Simon Toombs, Folio Society Philip Pullan Suzy Joinson, British Council Adrian Dannatt Susanne Nicklin, British Council Lynne Roberts James Bantin, Special Collections, Morris Library Christopher Butler Lee Durrell, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Mark Morris Sam Jordison, Guardian Books Leo Mellor John Hope Peter Baldwin Joanna Hodgkin Sandeep Parmar Anthea Morton-Saner The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mary Byrne Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver Michael Haag Université Paris Ouest Nanterre