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Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell was a writer whose professional career spanned from 1931 to 1990. Born in 1912 and deceased in 1990, he is associated with a body of work that includes titles such as *Bitter lemons*, *Rachel Cobb*, and *An exchange of letters between Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell*. His bibliography also features *Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller* and *The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980*.
Durrell’s writings include observations on various topics, such as the statement that "Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land." He also wrote, "It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness." Another quote attributed to him notes that "Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Died
- 1990
- Works
- 368
Top works
- Rachel Cobb
- An exchange of letters between Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell
- Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller
- The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980
- Bitter lemons
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 54
- Total plays
- 339
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
· 2014 · cited 26,141x
- <i>Planck</i>
2018 results
· 2020 · cited 13,357x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,856x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,564x
- Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide
· 2010 · cited 11,429x
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Quotes
- “Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”
- “Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.”
- “Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.”
- “His [a terrorist's] primary objective is not battle. It is to bring down upon the community in general a reprisal for his wrongs, in the hope that the fury and resentment roused by punishment meted out to the innocent will gradually swell the ranks of those from whom he will draw further recruits.”
- “It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.”
- “That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course … youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Lawrence George Durrell , ( 1912-02-27 ) 27 February 1912, Jalandhar , Punjab , British India
- Died
- 7 November 1990 (1990-11-07) (aged 78), Sommières , France
- Occupation
- Biographer poet playwright novelist
- Nationality
- British
- Education
- St Edmund's School, Canterbury
- Period
- 1931–1990
- Notable works
- The Alexandria Quartet
- Parents
- Lawrence Samuel Durrell Louisa Dixie
- Relatives
- Gerald Durrell (brother) Margaret Durrell (sister) Leslie Durrell (brother)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lawrence George Durrell (/ˈdʊrəl, ˈdʌr-/; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
Born in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of 11 for his education. He did not like formal education, and started writing poetry at the age of 15. His first book was published in 1935, when he was 23 years old. In March 1935 he and his mother and younger siblings moved to the island of Corfu. Durrell spent many years thereafter living around the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lawrence Durrell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.