Co się czyta w raju – lektury obowiązkowe
What to read in paradise: must-reads

Author(s): Elżbieta Kiślak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Corfu; Odyssey; Lawrence Durrell; Gerald Durrell; Emma Tennant
Summary/Abstract: The text describes the reading fascinations of writers residing in Corfu or visiting the island, focusing particularly on a group of twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon writers: the brothers Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, Mary Stewart, Emma Tennant and the Australian Robert Dessaix. The focus of attention becomes the intertextual chain of connections in a number of their books and the important classical tradition in which Homer’s 'Odyssey', due to the episode of Odysseus’ encounter with Nausicaa, set in Corfu, and Shakespeare’s 'The Tempest', the location of which is also linked to Corfu, are of particular interest, although eccentric and surprising readings such as Chekhov, among others, are also included.

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