The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-1980

Kirjan The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-1980 (1998) on kirjoittanut Lawrence Durrell. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 556 sivua ja se on nidottu.

In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succ s de scandale in Paris: ". .. Tropic of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels. " Henry Miller, realizing that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked his ideal reader, responded: "You're the first Britisher who's written me an intelligent letter about the book. " Thus began a correspondence that ended only with Miller's death in 1980--nearly 1,000,000 words later. The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 contains an extensive and representative selection of the total correspondence. Almost half of the present volume has never been published before, including some recently recovered "lost" letters; in addition, many passages expurgated from letters published in 1963 have been restored. Editor Ian S. MacNiven of the State University of New York, Maritime College, is quite right to regard the Durrell-Miller correspondence as a dual biography of the creative lives of two of this century's great literary iconoclasts, a biography "At once as serious as Schopenhauer and as winning as wine. "