Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels, Or, The Kingdom of the Imagination

Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels, Or, The Kingdom of the Imagination PDF Author: Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636991
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Book Description
Through his use of Gnostic beliefs, Durrell destabilizes our notions of the "real" and suggests that the civilization to emerge out of the ruins of a devastated Europe will not be Christian, but Quincunxial. Durrell's aesthetic and thematic concerns establish him as a significant, indeed central, voice in twentieth-century British literature. His career, which spans over five decades, links the British High Modernists with the Postmodernists.