Notes and References The majority of Lawrence Durrell's manuscripts and other private papers are located at the Special Collections, Morris Library, Southern Illinois Uni­ versity at Carbondale: they were largely acquired in two tranches, the first having been catalogued as Collection 42: references to this part of the Dur­ rell Archive will be made as follows: SIUC: 42/00/0, where the second set of digits indicates the box number and the third digit indicates the folio number within the box. Readers pursuing this material should also follow the catalogue of the collection made by Ian MacNiven, A Descriptive Cata­ logue of the Lawrence Durrell Collection at Southern Illinois University (Carbon­ dale, 1975), and, where necessary, supplemented by reference to Shelley Cox, The Lawrence Durrell Papers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Exhibit and Catalog (Carbondale 1988). In the case of the second, more recently acquired, part of the Archive, which includes a large portion of Durrell's working library, cataloguing had not been completed at the time of my research, and reference has been msade to SIUC/LD/ Accession II. In the case of items held by the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lawrence Durrell at Sommieres, reference is made to the inventory entry as follows: CERLD: inv. 000 or, where the item is uncatalogued, to CERLD (uncata­ logued item), followed by a short description of the item. The pages in most notebooks are unnumbered, or have been numbered incorrectly during cataloguing; references to page numbers have been included only where there is no possibility of confusion as to the page intended: in most instances, these are Durrell's own markings. Notes to the Introduction 1. Durrell used this expression in the introduction to Balthazar, the second volume of The Alexandria Quartet (London: Faber and Faber, 1958) p. 5. 2. R. Pine, The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind and Morals from Brummell to Durrell (London: Macmillan Press; New York, StMartin's Press, 1988). 3. S. Rushdie, quoted by T. Brennan, Salman Rushdie and the Third World (New York: StMartin's Press, 1989) p. 116. 4. SIUC: 42/12/2: 'Quarry [for] Justine ... France '57'. 5. Sappho Durrell, 'Journals and Letters' in B. Buford (ed.), Granta, no. 37, 'The Family' (Autumn 1991) pp. 55-92. 6. Ibid. 7. T. S. Eliot, Complete Poems and Plays (London: Faber and Faber, 1969) p.198. 8. CERLD uncatalogued item contained in a publisher's dummy (no marking on spine) labelled on title-page: 'Lawrence Durrell/Corfu­ A8r]va[Athens]-Paris/Rome-Verona-London/1937-1938-1939'. 9. G. Steiner, Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975) pp. 66-109. 388 Notes and References 389 10. CERLD inv. 1345. 11. Cf. R. Browning, 'Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp I Or what's a heaven for?', Poetical Works 1833-1864, ed. I. Jack (London: Oxford University Press, 1970) p. 632. 12. G. S. Fraser, Lawrence Durrell: A Study (London: Faber and Faber) 1968, p.12. 13. SIUC: 4211918. 'Quarry [for] Tunc-Nunquam'. 14. SIUCILDI Accession II, box 1, folder 5. 15. SIUC: 42119110. 16. Margaret McCall, 'The Lonely Roads: notes for an Unwritten Book', in I. MacNiven and C. Pierce (guest eds), Twentieth Century Literature vol. 33, no. 3 (Fall1987) p. 385 [hereafter cited as TCL 33/3]. 17. SIUC: 4211918: there is, however, a suggestion that a child of Julian might, in fact, be suffocated; other prospective plots include: Capodistria: work into J the themes for Capodistria - a fantasy death at carnival party- hat pin through the eye - Selim offers her evidence in exchange for a fuck ... After Pursewarden's death his wife arrives - a big drunk raw-boned girl - she finds he has been going to the Arab quarter to look after a small child by some prosti­ tute of his. She accepts the child explaining:'! made him miserable. He loved me. Everyone he fucked was me. .. He gave me this child in the person of another.' (SIUC 4211111) 18. G. Simenon, in Writers at Work, ed. M. Cowley (London: Penguin Books, 1958) p. 132. 19. CERLD, uncatalogued typescript of an interview, 'Entretien avec LAWRENCE DURRELL ... propos recueillis par fean-Luc Moreau et fean­ Didier Wagneur' shortly after the completion of The Avignon Quintet [hereafter cited as CERLD Moreau/Wagner]. 20. Ibid. 21. I\10>81 OECXU'tOV [gnothi seauton - know thyself) is most widely attributed to Plato (Protagoras 343b, trans. W. R. M. Lamb [London: Heinemann, 1924] pp. 196-7. 22. CERLD I Moreau/Wagner. 23. G. S. Fraser, collection in SIUC, 841112. 24. G. S. Fraser, Lawrence Durrell, p. 10. 25. There are considerable similarities between the early careers of Durrell and Richard Aldington: see in particular C. Doyle, Richard Aldington (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1989) pp. xvi, xvii, xviii, 4, 5, 7, 10, 86, 91, 120, 131 and 281-305 on their later friendship. See also I. MacNiven and H. T. Moore (eds), Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell Correspondence (London: Faber and Faber, 1981) and R. Pine, The Dandy and the Herald, especially pp. 151--6, on Durrell's indebtedness to Death of a Hero and All Men are Enemies. It is also worth noting that Durrell owed something of his knowledge of rectory life to Aldington's The Colonel's Daughter (London: Chatto and Windus, 1931) especially pp. 35,306. 26. There are also considerable (but less likely) parallels between the early years of Durrell and William Gerhardie: see D. Davies, William 390 Notes and References Gerhardie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), especially the passages dealing with Gerhardie as an expatriate (cf. p. 22) and the question of indeterminacy (cf. p. 24); see also pp. 23, 26, 65, 78, 114, 142-3, 164, 176, 281, 284, 364, 370; and R. Pine, The Dandy and the Herald, pp. 156-61, for a discussion of Durrell's relationship to Futility and The Polyglots. 27. There is evidence in the Fraser collection at SIUC (84/1/2) that Faber and Faber were not entirely satisfied with the study. 28. F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (London: Chatto and Wmdus, 1962) p. 26: it is true that we can point to the influence of Joyce in a line of writers to which there is no parallel issuing from Lawrence.... In these writers, in whom a regrettable (if minor) strain of Mr Eliot's influence seems to me to join with that of Joyce we have, in so far as we have anything significant, the wrong kind of reaction to liberal idealism. I have in mind writers whom Mr Eliot has expressed an interest in strongly favourable terms: Djuna Barnes of Nightwood, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell of The Black Book. In these writers - at any rate in the last two (and the first seems to me insignificant)­ the point of what we are offered affects me as being entirely a desire in Lawrentian phrase, to 'do dirt' on life. The remark about Durrell being 'not one of us' is attributed by R. W. Dasenbrock to Ray Morrison in 'Centrifugality: An Approach to Lawrence Durrell', in L. W. Markert and C. Pierce (eds), On Miracle Ground II (Baltimore, Md.: University of Baltimore, 1984) p. 210 [here­ after cited as OMG2]. 29. In a letter to the author, published in The Dandy and the Herald, PP· 7-8. 30. SIUC: 42/11/6: typescript 'The Minor Mythologies' [hereafter cited as MM/ts]. 31. V. Havel, Disturbing the Peace (London: Faber and Faber, 1990) pp. lQ- 11. 32. Quoted by G. Steiner, Real Presences (London: Faber and Faber, 1989) p. 27, translated by him as 'the harsh, demanding desire for durance'. 33. SIUC: 42/8/1. The note is marked 'Macon': for a remark on this phenomenon, seen. 35 (page 401 below). 34. Durrell referred on several occasions to these 'uncles' including the occasion of a lecture in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1972; and in 'From the Elephant's Back', Fiction Magazine, vol. 2, no. 3 (Winter 1983). 35. G. Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975) p. 58. 36. CERLD inv. 1344, p. 86. 37. CERLD inv. 1346, p. 12. 38. CERLD uncatalogued typescript referring to the interview known as 'The Kneller Tape', which appears in H. Moore (ed.), The World of Lawrence Durrell (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962); in this typescript Durrell says: a series of answers to a brilliant questionnaire by a young Austrian Jewish (I think) journalist which sought to uncover the background Notes and References 391 influences behind the Alexandria Quartet and its author's intellec­ tual intentions. On the whole, though executed off the cuff in some­ what haphazard fashion [there are in fact many variations between the typescript(s) and the printed version] it holds up tolerably well'. This note is dated '84'. 39. L. Durrell, introduction to Poet to Poet: Wordsworth Selected by Lawrence Durrell (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 10. 40. Conversation with the author. 41. SIUC: 42/19/9: 'The Placebo' typescript, p. 223 [hereafter cited as 'Placebo' ts 1. 42. Derrida, Writing and Difference, trans. A. Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978). 43. P. Ricoeur: The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-disciplinary Studies in the Creation of Meaning in Language, trans. R. Czerny (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978). 44. E. Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978). 45. G. Josipovici, The World and the Book, 2nd edn (London: Macmillan, 1979). 46. G. Steiner, 'Lawrence Durrell and the Baroque Novel', in Language and Silence (London: Faber and Faber, 1967) originally published in The Yale Review, xlix/ 4 47.