“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.” ~ Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet)

#compassion #tenderness #LawrenceDurrell #LizaSivakova

“He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the giant footprints of the historical memory which lies behind the recollections of individual personality, its mentor and guide: indeed its inventor, since man is only an extension of the spirit of place.”
~ Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

#LawrenceDurrell #AlexandriaQuartet #HistoricalMemory #SpiritOfPlace

‘A landscape for resolutions and partings,’ says Zarian in an essay on famous visitors to Corcyra. ‘A landscape which precipitates the inward crisis of lives as yet not fully worked out.’

Lawrence Durrell, Prospero’s Cell (1945)

#Corfu #LawrenceDurrell

Soooo, new here like many recently, and stumbling around like we do on the island. Love #greece and #corfu of course and esp. it’s #literary heritage: #LawrenceDurrell and his brother #geralddurrell, #edwardlear and his #landscapepainting of the #island and the #balkans, #johnsingersargent #corfuliteraryfestival #ireland #europe