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The Avignon Quintet by Lawrence Durrell

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Name: Lawrence Durrell
Birth Date: February 27, 1912
Death Date: November 7, 1990
Place of Birth: Darjeeling, India
Place of Death: Sommieres, France
Nationality: Irish
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet, novelist, playwright

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Biography of Lawrence Durrell
1161 words, approx. 3.9 pages
A prolific British author, Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) wrote several large-scale, multi-volume series of novels as well as poetry, plays, short stories, and travel books. People and places of the Mediterranean were a central theme of his work. Lawrence...
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Biography of Lawrence Durrell
5878 words, approx. 19.6 pages
A follower in the footsteps of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce, Lawrence Durrell explored in his novels the quintessential concerns of the twentieth century: space, time, consciousness, sexuality, and identity. Equally at home in all the genres of literat...
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Biography of Lawrence (George) Durrell
5567 words, approx. 18.6 pages
Until 1957 Lawrence Durrell was an ordinary disaffected Englishman with a passion for writing, seemingly destined to live his life in a series of remote Mediterranean isles in the shadow of his renowned brother Gerald. In that year, however, he achieved...
 


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The Avignon Quintet Information
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The Avignon Quintet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1974 and 1985. The novels are openly metafictional and reflect the developments in experimental fiction following after Durrell's previous The Alexandria...


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Europe
Avignon.
10/01/2000: 1,474 words, approx. 5 pages
One of this year's Capitals of Culture this Southern French City Seduces By nature, Avignon is a drama queen. Poised theatrically above the Rhone River, which lies at its feet like a doting admirer, the city shows off the chiseled outlines of its...
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The Independent - London
Avignon Festival
08/02/1995: 578 words, approx. 2 pages
Ariane Mnouchkine's Tartuffe stood out head and shoulders above the rest at this year's Avignon Festival. Amazingly, in all the 31 years since she founded her renowned Theatre du Soleil in Paris, this is her first Moliere production. Not so amazingly, she hits the...
 


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The Avignon Quintet by Lawrence Durrell

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