Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World

Edited by Anna Lillios

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Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press London: Associated University Presses Contents

Introduction 13 ANNA LILLIOS

Reminiscences Corfu 2000 33 PENELOPE DURRELL HOPE Margaret Durrell Remembers ...: A Dialogue on Corfu 36 SUSAN and IAN MACNIVEN Remembering the Poets: Translating Seferis with Durrell and Bernard Spencer 46 NANOS VALAORITIS

Corfu An Unpublished Letter of Durrell to Marie Aspioti 57 PANOS KARAGIORGOS The Discovery of Yourself: Lawrence Durrell and Gostan Zarian in Greece 62 DAVID STEPHEN CALONNE

Alexandria The Secret History of Lawrence DurrelFs The Alexandria Quartet: The Mountolive-Hosnani Affair, Britain, and the Wafd 79 MIKE DIBOLL "The old poet of the city": Cavafy in Darley's Alexandria 106 ANTHONY HIRST The Alexandrian Mirages of Durrell and Cavafy 120 ANNA LILLIOS Soundscapes, Smellscapes, and Cityscapes in The Alexandria Quartet 129 JACK STEWART

NIEOER8. Lvr-rU.UNI BluUliTHE COTTINCBN CONTENTS Rhodes Durrell on Rhodes JOHN LEATHAM Cyprus Memories of Durrell 153 PENELOPE TREMAYNE Colonial Encounters: Lawrence DurrelFs Bitter Lemons of Cyprus 158 PETRA TOURNAY "Lawrence Durrell, the Bitterest Lemon?": Cyps and Brits Loving Each Other to Death in Cyprus, 1953-57 169 VANGELIS CALOTYCHOS Durrell and Myth COMING TO MEDUSA: From desire to fear, and from love to disgust. Glosses on DurrelPs discourse on modern love 191 CORINNE ALEXANDRE-GARNER "Something harder": The Discovery of Self Through Greece, Fable, and Fairy Tale 203 PAULINE BEARD Multiple Truths and Multiple Narratives: Nietzsche's Perspectivalism and the Narrative Structure of The Alexandria Quartet 215 JOHN M. ROSE Durrell and Others Lawrence Durrell and the Greek Poets: A Contribution to Cultural History 241 MARIOS BYRON RAIZIS Two Mad-Dog Englishmen in the Corfu Sun: Lawrence Durrell and Edward Lear 255 JOHN MAYNARD "More than a Fascination with the Divine Marquis": John Fowles's The Magus and Lawrence DurrelFs The Alexandria Quartet 270 PATRICK QUINN Greek Inspirations Prospero's Cell: A Meditation on Place 285 H. R. STONEBACK CONTENTS 9

Durrell's Ode to the Olive 298 JANE KELLER A Grecian Turn: Poems from Corfu 309 DAVID RADAVICH

Works Cited 316 Notes on Contributors 327 Index 331