Lawrence and Durrell: ‘ON THE SAME TRAM’

MacNiven, Ian S.

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-21704-5_5

D.H. Lawrence’s Literary Inheritors 1991

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21704-5_5

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Lawrence and Durrell: ‘ON THE SAME TRAM’

Ian S. MacNiven¹

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“…No doubt Durrell intended the uncertainty; his biographer, Ian MacNiven, writes that he regarded the third volume 'as the clou, the nail holding together the entire structure of the Quartet'. 34 Eugene Hollahan calls it 'the most puzzling piece of The Alexandria Quartet as the only piece that could be construed as "written" in the usual novelistic sense'. 35 In the second edition of his Rhetoric of Fiction (1983), Wayne C. Booth places the narrator of Mountolive in his 'Gallery of Unreliable Narrators and Reflectors'.…”

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‘The Truth Only Partially Perceived’

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2017

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Through the role of the Alexandria Quartet's writer-narrator, L. G. Darley, Lawrence Durrell interrogates the writing process by dem onstrating the co-existence of multiple interpretations of place and time. Both Durrell and Darley build an evocation of Alexandria and its inhabitants using myriad textual sources, including fictional writer-characters as well as wellknown authors such as E. M. Forster and Cavafy. This article examines the use of this palimpsest as a device through which Darley learns to become a novelist, by reading, rereading, and rewriting his impressions of the city. The multi-vocal nature of the Quartet -in which each of the four books effectively retells the same story -demonstrates not only the inherently intertextual and self-reflexive nature of the novel form, but also the way in which stories take shape. Darley frames and structures the narrative, propelling it forward by demonstrating his evolution as a writer throughout the four books. Durrell illustrates this both structurally and thematically, presenting Darley's growth as a novelist through the layering of different versions of the truth, whilst suggesting that only together do these disparate readings of 'truth' constitute something approaching reality. * * * * *There, lying on the table in the yellow lamplight, lay the great interlinear to Justine -as I had called it. It was crosshatched, crabbed, starred with questions and answers in different-coloured inks, in typescript. It seemed to me then to be somehow symbolic of the very reality we had shared -a palimpsest upon which each of us had left his or her individual traces, layer by layer. 1

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“…Claude probably contributed to Durrell's evolving interests in cuisine, especially haute cuisine, or "Grande Cuisine," as Durrell referred to it in Caesar's Vast Ghost (28). Around 1958, Durrell appears to have played a role in locating a short culinary novel for her to translate-Marcel Rouff's La Vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet, originally published in 1924(MacNiven 1998. Rouff (1877Rouff ( -1936 dedicated this gastronomical gem, perhaps set in the Jura, to the famous French gastronome Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826).…”

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Exploring the Christmas Eve Menu in Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet

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Details from the menu for a Christmas Eve supper described in the first novel of Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet provide a unique opportunity to explore the author's depiction of Provence from a culinary perspective. Although the origins of this menu can be traced to medieval times, Durrell's inclusion of Chicken flamed in Cognac conflicts with the holiday supper's traditional meatless nature. Moreover, raïto, a fish dish with ties to Provençal nationalism during the nineteenth century, serves as an important clue in discovering Durrell's primary source used for the crafting of his menu—a work on Provence by an earlier and now largely forgotten American writer. In the course of exploring this menu, we gain new insights regarding the little-known culinary side of Durrell as well as his interpretation of Provence's spirit of place through its cuisine.

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Lawrence and Durrell: ‘ON THE SAME TRAM’

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‘The Truth Only Partially Perceived’

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Exploring the Christmas Eve Menu in Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet

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