Lawrence Durrell
Narozeni	27. unora 1912 D?alandhar , Pand?ab , Britska Indie
Umrti	7. listopadu 1990 (ve v?ku 78 let) Sommieres , Gard , Francie
P?i?ina umrti	cevni mozkova p?ihoda
Misto poh?beni	Chapelle Saint-Julien de Montredon
Alma mater	Pancyprian Gymnasium St Edmund's School St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling
Povolani	basnik , dramatik , autor autobiografie, spisovatel a scenarista
Ocen?ni	James Tait Black Memorial Prize spole?nik Kralovske literarni spole?nosti Cholmondeley Award komander ?adu britskeho imperia
Cho?	Nancy Isobel Myers (1935?1947) [1] Eve Cohen (1947?1955) [2] [1] Claude-Marie Vincendon (1961?1967) [1] Ghislaine de Boysson (1973?1979) [1] Francoise Kestsman
D?ti	Penelope Berengaria Walker Durrell [3] [2] Sappho Jane Durrell [3] [2]
Rodi?e	Lawrence Samuel Durrell [2] a Louisa Dixie Durrell [2]
P?ibuzni	Gerald Durrell [2] , Margaret Durrell a Leslie Durrell (sourozenci)
Web	www .lawrencedurrell .org
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Lawrence George Durrell ( 27. unora 1912 , D?alandhar ? 7. listopadu 1990 , Sommieres ) byl anglicky spisovatel . Narodil se v Britske Indii , nikdy v?ak nem?l britske ob?anstvi, pova?oval se za kosmopolitu a rad se vysmival anglickemu sverazu. ?ast mladi pro?il s rodinou na Korfu .

Proslul zejmena svymi romany , psal ov?em i basn? , cestopisy , kratke humoristicke p?ib?hy a divadelni hry . K jeho nejznam?j?im prozam pat?i ?ty?dilny Alexandrijsky kvartet . Byl siln? ovlivn?n St?edomo?im , kde leta pobyval, zejmena ostrovem Korfu , o n?m? ?asto pi?e ve svych knihach. Pobyval na r?znych mistech sv?ta, v?etn? Argentiny ?i titovske Jugoslavie , nakonec se usadil ve francouzske Provenci , kterou oslavil romanovou pentalogii Avignonsky kvintet . Jeho knihy jsou rovn?? ovlivn?ny hermetismem a esoterickou symbolikou.

Byl star?im bratrem zoologa a spisovatele Geralda Durrela .

Bibliografie [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Pied Piper of Lovers (1935)
• Panic Spring (1937)
• ?erna kniha ( The Black Book , 1938)
• Temny labyrint (p?vodni titul Cefalu , 1947; znovu vydano jako The Dark Labyrinth , 1958)
• White Eagles Over Serbia (1957)
• Alexandrijsky kvartet ( The Alexandria Quartet , 1962)
  • Justine (1957)
  • Balthazar (1958)
  • Mountolive (1958)
  • Clea (1960)
• The Revolt of Aphrodite (1974)
  • Tunc (1968)
  • Nunquam (1970)
• The Avignon Quintet (1992)
  • Monsieur, aneb, Kni?e temnot ( Monsieur: or, The Prince of Darkness , 1974)
  • Livia: or, Buried Alive (1978)
  • Constance: or, Solitary Practices (1982)
  • Sebastian: or, Ruling Passions (1983)
  • Quinx: or, The Ripper's Tale (1985)

Cestopisy [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Prospero's Cell: A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra Corfu (1945)
• Setkani s mo?skou Venu?i: pr?vodce krajinou Rhodosu ( Reflections on a Marine Venus , 1953)
• Bitter Lemons (1957)
• Blue Thirst (1975)
• Sicilian Carousel (1977)
• The Greek Islands (1978)
• Caesar's Vast Ghost (1990)

Poezie [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Quaint Fragments (1931)
• Ten Poems (1932)
• Transition: Poems (1934)
• A Private Country (1943)
• Cities, Plains and People (1946)
• On Seeming to Presume (1948)
• Selected Poems: 1953?1963 (1964)
• The Ikons (1966)
• The Suchness of the Old Boy (1972)
• Collected Poems: 1931?1974 (1980)
• Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell (2006)

Divadelni hry [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Bromo Bombastes (1933)
• Sappho: A Play in Verse (1950)
• An Irish Faustus: A Morality in Nine Scenes (1963)
• Acte (1964)

Humoristicke knihy [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Esprit de Corps (1957)
• Stiff Upper Lip (1958)
• Sauve Qui Peut (1966)
• Antrobus Complete (1985)

Publicistika [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• A Key to Modern British Poetry (1952)

Dopisy [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence (1962)
• Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel (1969)
• Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington?Lawrence Durrell Correspondence (1981)
• A Smile in the Mind's Eye (1982)
• Preface, about Eduardo Sanguinetti
• Letters to T. S. Eliot (1987)
• The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935?80 (1988)
• Letters to Jean Fanchette (1988)

Reference [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

Literatura [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Bowker, Gordon. Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell. New York: St. Martin's P, 1997.
• Chamberlin, Brewster. A Chronology of the Life and Times of Lawrence Durrell. Corfu: Durrell School of Corfu, 2007.
• MacNiven, Ian. Lawrence Durrell?A Biography. London: Faber and Faber, 1998.

Externi odkazy [ editovat | editovat zdroj ]

• Obrazky, zvuky ?i videa k tematu Lawrence Durrell na Wikimedia Commons
• Heslo v encyklopedii Britannica