Talk:Lawrence Durrell

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(Early comments)

Does anyone have any more info on the Durrell school in Corfu? I visited the homepage but saw that it hasn't been updated in too long.

What is "apocolyptic" (paragraph 3 line 3)? A typo?

Seems to be nothing here on the last 41 years of Durrell's life. Can anyone help with this?

Exile 20:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lawrence Durrell's wife

The article says Lawrence moved to Corfu with Syblings, Mother and wife. Does any-one know why his wife is not mentioned in his younger brother's book "My family and other animals". Or is it?

No, as far as I remember Larry's wife is not mentioned. In the page http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/durrell.htm, his first ,marraige is said to occur in 1935 - 2 years after they landed at Corfu. -kg

Nancy was Lawrence's first wife, and the two lived apart from the rest of the Durrell family in Corfu. The idea of the whole family group was under one roof fit the narrative purposes of Gerry's memoirs better, and I think he thought that introducing this dynamic would have confused and made the familial soap opera completely overwhelm the other parts of the story he wanted to tell. He took some licence with chronology and so on, but overall he was fairly scrupulous and writing out Nancy is the biggest liberty that Gerry took in the book. Lawrence and Nancy were married in Bournemouth in January 1935 and left England for Corfu in March. Ben-w 04:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Landing in Corfu

So what year did the Durrell family land in Corfu? You are suggesting 1933, but most publications I've found say 1935. Also, with regard to Nancy Meyers (Lawrence Durrell's first wife), most sources say that they were married in 1935. I agree that it's strange she went unmentioned in Gerry's books (all of which are very good!). Does anyone have any idea why this may be? ~~SM

Four-letter words reference?

Thanks for the nice edits, RKlassen! Only one point: the "four -letter words ..." quote now has no reference. Was that from Dearborn? -- JimR 08:22, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Regarding the quote, it wasn't clear to me where that came from. My guess is that it likely came from Dearborn. The later part of Durrell's life still needs some work... anyone? -- --RKlassen 23:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not appropriate to list My Family And Other Animals in the Further Reading section?

I imagine that Gerald's autobiographical books, especially those about his childhood which feature Lawrence as one of the main characters, would be of interest to Lawrence lovers. perhaps a note to warn that Gerald Durrell's descriptions of his family are not intended to be scholarly, but rather humourous. Leeborkman 02:37, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see any problem with listing it -- Lawrence is probably better known for his appearance in Gerald's books than for writing his own -- but, yes, I think you're right to note that Gerald took some artistic licence. Nancy is almost entirely written out of Gerald's accounts, and it is strongly implied that Lawrence lived with the rest of the family on Corfu, although he did not. Ben-w 03:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

what about the paintings?

not exactly pressing, but in addition to all of the different writings he was a painter and exhibited in Paris under the name (James?) Ephs. this is a nice artistic outlier to illustrate his range in content, form, etc. also, the list of works is missing "Pope Joan" ("Papissa Joanna"), a sort of creative interpretation of a Greek text from around 1900 which was itself a creative interpretation of the myth/legend/history of the only female pope. this arguably not Durrell's work at all, but his ideas are indelibly impressed on the narrative. again, fairly unimportant, but in the letters/essays section you should also list "Art and Outrage" (letters with Alfred Perles), the conversations book by Ingersoll which you have the image of at the top of the page, and "The Big Supposer" (interviews with Mark Alyn). more detail than you ever wanted, i know.

66.251.26.250 12:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citizenship of ??

If he did not hold a British passport (and in 1966 apparently could not get one even if he wanted one), what passport did he hold? Were his parents not British citizens? Hugo999 (talk) 01:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Durrell remained a British citizen but was a non-patrial. Ezard's article, the first time anyone noticed this, states that he lost his citizenship, which isn't entirely true. Like many British West Indians or the Pakistani British, he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain, and he needed a visa for each visit. It was a part of the amended 1968 Immigration Act, which was designed to limit immigration from all the British subjects who might have skin darker than the Cliffs of Dover... 65.39.233.124 (talk) 23:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He lived in southern France from the late 1950s onwards and very much appreciated the country, so it's likely that he may have acquired French citizenship. 83.254.159.179 (talk) 21:23, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't he a spy for MI6? LoopZilla (talk) 22:18, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

article about Leslie

Readers of this article might be interested in commenting on the article about Leslie Durrell. Check the talk page - you'll see that I think Leslie barely deserves an article at all, since he chose to be non-notable (so to speak), and that he certainly doesn't deserve the long, gossip-filled commentary on his personality which has been placed there as an article.

But at least two folks disagree. That article has very few editors, however, so more opinions would be helpful. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 12:01, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've listed the article for deletion here. Let the debate begin. --Michael Johnson (talk) 03:14, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

How is it this writer deserves 34kb worth of article? I'd never heard of him before this afternoon, and i'm no wiser now, because the article is pretty much unreadable. It's horrendously structured, has way too much information about his life intermingled with his writing, without it being clear why one is relevant to the way the other worked out, and so on. Fix it!boombaard (talk) 17:02, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The author is certainly notable, to suggest otherwise based on your knowledge is possibly more a comment on you rather than Durrell. As for the article's problems, it is already tagged, and if you see it as a priority, why not do some work on it yourself? --Michael Johnson (talk) 21:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"I'd never heard of him before this afternoon...." "It is horrendously structured...." These are the individual, subjective opinions of one person out of the billions who populate this planet. As such, they are quaintly lyrical but of minimal value.173.72.115.153 (talk) 00:18, 14 July 2018 (UTC)DeMikeal Tibbits[reply]

Outbreak of Second World War

It states here that "At the outbreak of the Second World War, Durrell's mother and siblings returned to England, while he and Nancy remained on Corfu." Whereas on the Margaret Durrell page it states "She remained on Corfu following the departure of her mother and two brothers to England during World War II, sharing a peasant cottage with some local friends." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.12.18.17 (talk) 08:01, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Figure is shadowed and indistinct. Might be anyone sittting on a barrel.Lestrade (talk) 17:34, 16 July 2012 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

Floating quote?

The following quote is not sourced or properly formatted, and the sentence doesn't make sense: 'His next, The Black Book, abounded with "four-letter words... grotesques,... [and] its mood equally as apocalyptic" as Tropic.' I can't find any record of the quote outside this article, so I don't know who it's attributable to.Sadiemonster (talk) 14:38, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cukor film

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Given the complexity of the work, it was probably inevitable that George Cukor's 1969 attempt to film the Quartet (Justine) simplified the story to the point of melodrama, and was poorly received.

Someone may wish to source it and restore a version of it. Spicemix (talk) 15:46, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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