Brief Bibliography
in English
Henry Jervis White-Jervis, History of the Island of Corfu and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands.
S. Atkinson, An Artist in Corfu (1911).
Viscount Kirkwall, “Four Years in the Ionian.”
William Goodisson, AB., A Historical and Topographical Essay upon the Islands of Corfu, etc. (1822).
D. T. Anstead, The Ionian Islands (1863).
Index
A
Adams 131, 138, 139
Anastasius 22, 29–31, 54–59, 87, 97, 99
architecture 11
Arsenius, St. 17
B
Barba Giorgos 84, 86
Basil 44, 52
Boulgaris 40
brain cutlets 168–171
C
Cadi, the 80, 84
Caliban 121–123, 232
Calypso’s island 95
Cape Stiletto, legend of 32
Carbide-flare fishing 32
Caroline 195–196, 200 – 202, 208
chutney 135, 138
Cicero 100, 103, 113
Colyva 151
Corfu
derivation 108
synoptic history 19
costume, island 21
Count D. 115–116, 151
Cressida stream 91, 127
Cricket 3 133–134
D
Demetrius Poliorcetes 112
Dervenagas 84
Diodorus 109, 110, 112
dishes, Greek 71
Dorothy 185
drinks 150, 175, 181
dynamiter 155
E
Earl of Guilford 131
eel 29–31, 58
F
Fano Island 41, 95, 99
Father Nicholas 21, 30, 61–65, 71, 73–74, 77–78, 80, 87, 99, 134, 177–182, 188
Forts, Corfu 106, 137, 139, 218
Fynes Morison 107
G
geology 2 19, 11
Germanicus 113
Gladstone 132
Gnio-Gnio 79, 85
Golden Book 139, 141
Goodisson 126, 245
Govino 32, 63, 142
Grand Vizier, the 80
grapes 23, 28
treading 194, 199–200
H
Hadjiavatis 74–78, 84
Hermones, Cave of 92
I
Ionian Academy 131
J
Jason 109, 218
Judas Iscariot 127
K
Kallikanzaroi 162
Kalocheiritis 37–39
Karaghiosis 69–86, 211
Kassopi 90, 100, 110, 146, 221
Kastellani dance 177–183
Kirkwall, Viscount 135
L
Lakones 23, 102, 221
Lanassa 112–113
Lithgow 105, 107, 122
“Lord,” the 80, 235
Lycophron 111
M
Macria 109
Maillol 165
Mantinea 168, 172, 173, 175
Medea 109
Mnesippus 103, 111, 214
Mouse Island 91, 102, 131, 143
Mustalevria 200
Myrtiotissa 154, 182, 201, 218
N
Napoleon 4 130, 166
Nausicaa 90, 95, 99
Nelson 60, 205
Nero 100, 166
Nimiec 27, 70, 72, 80, 82, 108, 140, 192, 194, 195, 201, 208
O
octopus 29, 54, 56–57, 219
Odysseus 98–100
Odyssey 89–90, 98–99
olive 229
gathering 101, 147
oil 55, 58, 145, 189, 212
pressing 148
trees 21, 23, 31, 64, 66, 105, 131, 147, 149, 150, 161, 192, 194, 237
P
Pagan survivals 151, 154
Paleocastrizza 23, 91–99, 102, 125, 176–177, 185, 215, 218
Paleopolis 91, 102, 114
Pan 162
Paramythia 39
peasant remedies 214
peasants, time sense 96
Peltours 27, 53, 70
Periander 111–112
Places to See 218
Prospero’s Island 121, 166
puppets 78, 86
Pyrrhus 112
R
Richard Lionheart 104
S
salt pans 91, 122–123
Scheria 109
sea legend 125–126
sea scorpion 55
Shadow play 70–72, 81, 83
shoulder net 58
“Sign of the Partridge” 16
Spiridion, St. 12, 19, 28, 35, 36, 43, 104, 135, 189, 217, 218
church 6 35–36, 40–43, 50, 61, 100, 138, 153, 158
clock 50–51
miracles 37, 43
procession 41–42, 85
Spiro Americanos 143
squid 54, 56–58, 81
Stephanides, Theodore 14, 19
Stephano, St., lighthouse 59
submarine 73
sweetmeats, Greek 41, 71, 220
Sykopita 200
T
Tempest, The 9, 121–124, 164, 232, 243
Theodora Augusta, St. 38, 43
Theodore Stephanides 14, 19
Things to Visit 218
Thorpe 124
Tiberius, villa of 100–102
tobacco, smuggled 59
Totila 114–115
Trata 183
U
Ulysses 20, 89–91, 95–96, 98, 103, 105, 109, 131
V
vampires 153, 159
Van Norden 28, 32, 58–59, 71, 94–95
Veronica 27, 185
Vetrano 104, 215
Vido Island 136–137, 141, 142
Village festivities 6 100, 133, 141
Villehardouin 104
W
water
tasting 150
wines, local 14, 221
A Biography of Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) was a novelist, poet, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet, his acclaimed series of four novels set before and during World War II in Alexandria, Egypt. Durrell’s work was widely praised, with his Quartet winning the greatest accolades for its rich style and bold use of multiple perspectives. Upon the Quartet’s completion, Life called it “the most discussed and widely admired serious fiction of our time.”
Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912 to Indian-born British colonials, Durrell was an avid and dedicated writer from an early age. He studied in Darjeeling before his parents sent him to England at the age of eleven for his formal education. When he failed to pass his entrance examinations at Cambridge University, Durrell committed himself to becoming an established writer. He published his first book of poetry in 1931 when he was just nineteen years old, and later worked as a jazz pianist to help fund his passion for writing.
Determined to escape England, which he found dreary, Durrell convinced his widowed mother, siblings, and first wife, Nancy Isobel Myers, to move to the Greek island of Corfu in 1935. The island lifestyle reminded him of the India of his childhood. That same year, Durrell published his first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers. He also read Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and, impressed by the notorious novel, he wrote an admiring letter to Miller. Miller responded in kind, and their correspondence and friendship would continue for forty-five years. Miller’s advice and work heavily influenced Durrell’s provocative third novel, The Black Book (1938), which was published in Paris. Though it was Durrell’s first book of note, The Black Book was considered mildly pornographic and thus didn’t appear in print in Britain until 1973.
In 1940, Durrell and his wife had a daughter, Penelope Berengaria. The following year, as World War II escalated and Greece fell to the Nazis, Durrell and his family left Corfu for work in Athens, Kalamata (also in Greece), then Alexandria, Egypt. His relationship with Nancy was strained by the time they reached Egypt, and th
ey separated in 1942. During the war, Durrell served as a press attaché to the British Embassy. He also wrote Prospero’s Cell, a guide to Corfu, while living in Egypt in 1945.
Durrell met Yvette Cohen in Alexandria, and the couple married in 1947. They had a daughter, Sappho Jane, in 1951, and separated in 1955. Durrell published White Eagles Over Serbia in 1957, alongside the celebrated memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and Justine (1957), the first novel of the Alexandria Quartet Capitalizing on the overwhelming success of Justine, Durrell went on to publish the next three novels in the series—Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960)—in quick succession. Upon the series’ completion, poet Kenneth Rexroth hailed it as “a tour de force of multiple-aspect narrative.”
Durrell married again in 1961 to Claude-Marie Vincendon, who died of cancer in 1967. His fourth and final marriage was in 1973 to Ghislaine de Boysson, which ended in divorce in 1979.
After a life spent in varied locales, Durrell settled in Sommières, France, where he wrote the Revolt of Aphrodite series as well as the Avignon Quintet. The first book in the Quintet, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize while Constance (1982), the third novel, was nominated for the Booker Prize.
Durrell died in 1990 at his home in Sommières.
This photograph of Lawrence Durrell aboard his boat, the Van Norden, is taken from a negative discovered among his papers. The vessel is named after a character in Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. (Photograph held in the British Library’s modern manuscripts collection.)
One of Nancy Durrell’s photographs from the 1930s. Pictured here is the Caique, which they used to travel around the waters of Corfu. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin, property of the Gerald Durrell Estate.)
This photograph of Nancy and Lawrence Durrell was likely taken in Delphi, Greece, in late 1939. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin and the Gerald Durrell Estate.)
A 1942 photograph of Lawrence Durrell with his wife, Nancy, and their daughter, Penelope, taken in Cairo. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin.)
This manuscript notebook contains one of two drafts of Justine acquired by the British Library as part of Lawrence Durrell’s large archive in 1995. (Notebook held in the British Library’s modern manuscripts collection.)
A page from Durrell’s notebooks, or, as he called them, the “quarry.” This page introduced his notes on the “colour and narrative” of scenes in Justine. (Photo courtesy of the Lawrence Durrell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.)
“As well as serving delicious food in an idyllic setting, the Taverna Nikolas at Agni has strong links with the Durrell story in Corfu,” says Joanna Hodgkin of this 2012 photo. Durrell lived in the neighboring town of Kalami, where his famous White House sits right above the shoreline. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin.)
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