In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: ...
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..
Editor Ian S.
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.
The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 contains an extensive and representative selection of the total correspondence.
Thus began a correspondence that ended only with Miller\'s death in 1980--nearly 1,000,000 words later.
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.
Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels.
In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: ..
