The Revolt of Aphrodite by Lawrence Durrell

The Revolt of Aphrodite by Lawrence Durrell

When a genius inventor is seduced by a mysterious firm to create a robot, technology may save him - or be his undoing ...

'A virtuoso, capable of extraordinary feats' - New York Times

'Scenes of wild and deliberate fantasy...[of] peculiar and disturbing poignancy.' - New Statesman

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.

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ISBN 13	9780571362448
ISBN 10	0571362443
Titel	The Revolt of Aphrodite
Autor	Lawrence Durrell
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-06-17
Seitenanzahl	608
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