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Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Born in 1912 in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to school in England and later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals - later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in Prospero's Cell . The first of Durrell's island books, this was followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes; Bitter Lemons , on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; and, later, The Greek Islands . Durrell's first major novel, The Black Book , was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin - and it was praised by T. S. Eliot, who published his poetry in 1943. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet ( Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea ) which he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began The Avignon Quintet . When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history. Klappentext In his hugely popular Prospero's Cell ! Lawrence Durrell brought Corfu to life! attracting tens of thousands of visitors to the island. With Reflections on a Marine Venus ! he turns to Rhodes: ranging over its past and present! touching with wit and insights on the history and myth which the landscape embodies! and presenting some real and some imagined. With the same wit! tenderness and poetic insight that characterized Prospero's Cell ! Reflections on a Marine Venus is an excellent introduction the Eastern Mediterranean. 'How pleasant . . . to meet Mr Durrell! gloating over his enjoyment of a Greek island! . . . He excites a longing to leave for Rhodes at once.' Raymond Mortimer In Reflections of a Marine Venus , Lawrence Durrell has done for Rhodes what his book Prospero's Cell did for Corfu, and the resulting book shines delightfully with his trademark wit, tenderness and poetic insight. Zusammenfassung In his hugely popular Prospero's Cell , Lawrence Durrell brought Corfu to life, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to the island. With Reflections on a Marine Venus , he turns to Rhodes: ranging over its past and present, touching with wit and insights on the history and myth which the landscape embodies, and presenting some real and some imagined. With the same wit, tenderness and poetic insight that characterized Prospero's Cell , Reflections on a Marine Venus is an excellent introduction the Eastern Mediterranean. 'How pleasant . . . to meet Mr Durrell, gloating over his enjoyment of a Greek island! . . . He excites a longing to leave for Rhodes at once.' Raymond Mortimer ...
