The placebo /
Durrell, Lawrence
The placebo / by Lawrence Durrell, edited by Richard Pine, David Roessel. - London : Colenso Books for the Durrell Library of Corfu, 2018. - 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
From Fathy's Gourna to Durrell's Perister/ David Roessel -- Presentation of the texts/ Richard Pine -- The Placebo as a central text in Lawrence Durrell's work/ Rihard Pine -- A Village of Turtle-Doves -- The Placebo: an Attic Comedy -- Dactyl -- Appendix One: Poems -- Appendix Two: Caradoc's incorrigibilia -- Appendix Three: Sipple's "Investiture" and Sipple's "Lecture" -- Appendix Four: Austen Harrison's replies to Durrell's questionnaire.
"The Placebo is a collection of three draft novels which Lawrence Durrell prepared while working towards the production of Tunc in 1968. The three hitherto unpublished drafts are "A Village of Turtledoves", "The Placebo" and "Dactyl". Composed from 1955 onwards, they explore the themes which preoccupied Durrell during and after the composition of The Alexandria Quartet - the decline of civilisation, the poverty of the written word and the marginalisation of creativity. Working through a period of professional and personal depression, Durrell gradually evelved the storyline that emerged in Tunc and its successor, Nunquam (1970). The Placebo offers a unique opportunity to study a creative intelligence engaging with universal issues in a profoundly personal way, and an insight into Durrell's compositional methods over a ten-year period.
In this edition, Richard Pine and David Roessel have drawn on Durrell's notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts and his friendship with the architect Austen Harrison, to establish the principal topics addressed in The Placebo - architecture as a metaphor for human creativity and its relationship with nature, and scientific enquiry in its relation to aesthetics."-- Publisher's description.
9780992863289 paperback
English fiction--20th century
823.9
The placebo / by Lawrence Durrell, edited by Richard Pine, David Roessel. - London : Colenso Books for the Durrell Library of Corfu, 2018. - 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
From Fathy's Gourna to Durrell's Perister/ David Roessel -- Presentation of the texts/ Richard Pine -- The Placebo as a central text in Lawrence Durrell's work/ Rihard Pine -- A Village of Turtle-Doves -- The Placebo: an Attic Comedy -- Dactyl -- Appendix One: Poems -- Appendix Two: Caradoc's incorrigibilia -- Appendix Three: Sipple's "Investiture" and Sipple's "Lecture" -- Appendix Four: Austen Harrison's replies to Durrell's questionnaire.
"The Placebo is a collection of three draft novels which Lawrence Durrell prepared while working towards the production of Tunc in 1968. The three hitherto unpublished drafts are "A Village of Turtledoves", "The Placebo" and "Dactyl". Composed from 1955 onwards, they explore the themes which preoccupied Durrell during and after the composition of The Alexandria Quartet - the decline of civilisation, the poverty of the written word and the marginalisation of creativity. Working through a period of professional and personal depression, Durrell gradually evelved the storyline that emerged in Tunc and its successor, Nunquam (1970). The Placebo offers a unique opportunity to study a creative intelligence engaging with universal issues in a profoundly personal way, and an insight into Durrell's compositional methods over a ten-year period.
In this edition, Richard Pine and David Roessel have drawn on Durrell's notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts and his friendship with the architect Austen Harrison, to establish the principal topics addressed in The Placebo - architecture as a metaphor for human creativity and its relationship with nature, and scientific enquiry in its relation to aesthetics."-- Publisher's description.
9780992863289 paperback
English fiction--20th century
823.9