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...

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...

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...

Although The Revolt of Aphrodite is often considered an aberration in Lawrence Durrell's career, its scholarship insufficient compared to that of The Alexandria Quartet and The Avignon Quintet, the author argues that The Revolt makes significant contributions to Durrell's oeuvre and to modernist...

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