LAYERS OF THE PRIVATE EPITEXT: LAWRENCE DURRELL AND PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR’S CORRESPONDENCE
LAYERS OF THE PRIVATE EPITEXT: LAWRENCE DURRELL AND PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR’S CORRESPONDENCE
Author(s): Dan Horaţiu PopescuSubject(s): Other Language Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Editura University Press, Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stiinte si Tehnologie “George Emil Palade” din Targu Mures
Keywords: correspondence; writing; political issues;
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at highlighting significant episodes from the lives of Lawrence Durrel and Patrick Leigh Fermor, as reflected in their correspondence. With a focus on their concern for the craft of writing, the paper also touches some of the major political issues of the time, in the years after WWII. The Cold War period is reffered to with letters from behind the Iron Curtain, from Patrick Leigh Fermor’s first great love, the Romanian princess Balasha Cantacuzene.
Journal: Acta Marisiensis. Philologia
- Issue Year: 1/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 85-98
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English