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The placebo / by Lawrence Durrell, edited by Richard Pine, David Roessel.

By:

Durrell, Lawrence [author]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Colenso Books for the Durrell Library of Corfu, 2018.Description: 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780992863289

Subject(s):

English fiction -- 20th century

DDC classification:

823.9

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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 The three hitherto unpublished drafts are "A Village of Turtledoves", "The Placebo" and "Dactyl".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.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 3 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Rare books & Special Collections - For use in the library	CYA Library Library Office	823.9 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	Available upon request from the librarian.	19/05/2023	00000010659

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references.

"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.