Endeavour, Free
Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell by
Gordon Bowker
First published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Sinclair-Stevenson.
There was a dark cruel side to the bubbling Durrell and this brilliantly creative writer's life was indeed labyrinthine.
Born in India, schooled under Mount Everest, where Tibetan lamas trekked to and fro, he lived thereafter in a Tibet of the mind. Expelled from this paradise to school in gloomy England (his ‘Pudding Island’), he fled into exile, spending his most productive years in Greece and around the Mediterranean.
In wartime Egypt he conceived ‘The Alexandria Quartet’, which brought fame with its ‘exploration of modern love’ and experimental form. His great last novel cycle, ‘The Avignon Quintet’, has intrigued readers ever since with its formal complexity and compelling mystery.
Gordon Bowker's works include ‘Pursued by Furies: A Biography of Malcolm Lowry’, as well as biographies of George Orwell and James Joyce.
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