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From the Elephant`s Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings

โ€This collection has a straightforward ambition: to redirect the interpretive perspective that readers bring to Lawrence Durrell`s literary works by returning their attention to his short prose.โ€ – From the Introduction Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century modernism. His antiauthoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries–aesthetically and politically. However, thanks to a compelling recontextualization by editor James Gifford, these 38 previously unpublished and out-of-print essays and letters reveal that Durrell`s maturation as an artist was rich, complex, and subtle. This edition promises to open up new approaches to interpreting his more famous works. Durrell fans will treasure this selection of rare nonfiction, while scholars of Durrell, modernist literature, antiauthoritarian artists, and the Personalist movement will also appreciate Gifford`s fine editorial work.

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