Lawrence Durrell: Spirit of Place - Cyprus and Bitter Lemons

 

Lawrence Durrell was a modernist writer of elegance, wit, with Proustian depth of thought that is so excruciatingly good that you need to savour every word and sentence, and then go back and read it again just to make sure you’ve understood it, and then a third time. Then you’ll hit a long paragraph that can only be read at speed, with no going back because you might spoil a reading experience of a lifetime.

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