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The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-1980

The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-1980

Durrell, Lawrence
Miller, Henry
MacNiven, Ian S.

Paperback

Literary FiguresLetters & Essays

ISBN10: 0811217302
ISBN13: 9780811217309
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 19 1998
Pages: 556
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succès de scandale in Paris: ...Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels. Henry Miller, realizing that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked his ideal reader, responded: You're the first Britisher who's written me an intelligent letter about the book. Thus began a correspondence that ended only with Miller's death in 1980--nearly 1,000,000 words later. The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 contains an extensive and representative selection of the total correspondence. Almost half of the present volume has never been published before, including some recently recovered lost letters; in addition, many passages expurgated from letters published in 1963 have been restored. Editor Ian S. MacNiven of the State University of New York, Maritime College, is quite right to regard the Durrell-Miller correspondence as a dual biography of the creative lives of two of this century's great literary iconoclasts, a biography At once as serious as Schopenhauer and as winning as wine.

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