The Black Book (Durrell novel)
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| The Black Book | |
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Villa Seurat Series |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Obelisk Press |
| Publication date | 1938 |
| Published in English |
1971 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Panic Spring |
| Followed by | Cefalu |
The Black Book is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press. It is set with two competing narrators: Lawrence Lucifer on Corfu, in Greece, and Death Gregory in London. Faber and Faber offered to publish the novel in an expurgated edition, but on the advice of Henry Miller, Durrell declined[1].. It was published in the Villa Seurat Series along with Henry Miller's Max and the White Phagocytes and Anais Nin's Winter of Artifice.
Although published in 1938, Durrell wrote the novel primarily over a 16 month period from September 1935 until December 1936[2]. The novel shows several surrealist influences, and these may be in part related to materials from the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, about which Henry Miller was sending Durrell materials from Herbert Read.
[edit] References
- ^ MacNiven, Ian S. (1998). Lawrence Durrell: A Biography. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-17248-2.
- ^ MacNiven, Ian S. (1998). Lawrence Durrell: A Biography. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-17248-2.
