- Mass Market Paperback: 266 pages
- Publisher: Viking Pr (1978)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140050256
- ISBN-13: 978-0140050257
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,486,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The writing is nearly always superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also in the asides, the casual wit and the brilliance of comment.' Philip Toynbee, Observer
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A curious account of "seven modern European tourists who get lost in the labyrinth in Crete where the Minotaur has begun to make a comeback." First published 1947 as Celafu, it met with little success and was Durrell's last novel for 10 years. Reprinted 1962, after the success of the Alexandria Quartet, as "Dark Labyrinth."
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book is absolutely fascinating. Written in Durrell's brilliant style it is easier to read than most of his later novels. The author vividly pictures a unique atmosphere of the island of Crete. An exotic southern nature, hot sun, beautiful Mediterranean Sea, magnificent mountains - everything serves as a scene for the main action. I read the book while I was spending vacations on the Crete Island and I really enjoyed descriptions of the typical island inhabitants, their special Greek way of living. The plot of the book is very complicated. Durrell was probably inspired by ancient Greek legends about the Labyrinth of Minotaur. Nevertheless he has created not an ordinary adventure story about tourists lost in some mysterious and fearful place, but a study of troubled human minds, difficult relationships, problems of the after-war European society. The author introduces to readers a number of interesting characters, and we follow their way throughout labyrinths of dark sides of the soul as well as throughout caves and tunnels in mountains. I really sympathized with them, no matter were they pleasant or not. The book is fulfilled with mystery, strange events, poetry, and problems of psychoanalysis and even spiritism. It is also funny in a way, full of exquisite English humor. The story cleverly combines facts with a real explanation and the wildest fantasies. The truth turns out to be a fake and then... the truth again! The book is exciting. What else can I say? Just read it. It is worth reading.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Beautifully written story with dark, dark undertones. Being slightly claustrophobic, even the initial premise of a labyrinth made me feel "short of breath". The outcomes of the various protagonists was disturbing to say the least! The bright sun of Crete, versus the dark labyrinths of fact and mind, result in a book which remains in the memory.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book is absolutely fascinating. Written in Durrell's brilliant style it is easier to read than most of his later novels. The author vividly pictures a unique atmosphere of the island of Crete. An exotic southern nature, hot sun, beautiful Mediterranean Sea, magnificent mountains - everything serves as the scene for the main action. I read the book while I was spending vacations on the Crete Island and I really enjoyed descriptions of the typical island inhabitants, their special Greek way of living. The plot of the book is very complicated. Durrell was probably inspired by ancient Greek legends about the Labyrinth of Minotaur. Nevertheless he has created not an ordinary adventure story about tourists lost in some mysterious and fearful place, but a study of troubled human minds, difficult relationships, problems of the after-war European society. The author introduces to readers a number of interesting characters, and we follow their way throughout labyrinths of dark sides of the soul as well as throughout caves and tunnels in mountains. I really sympathized with them, no matter were they pleasant or not. The book is fulfilled with mystery, strange events, poetry, and problems of psychoanalysis and even spiritism. It is also funny in a way, full of exquisite English humor. The story cleverly combines facts with a real explanation and the wildest fantasies. The truth turns out to be a fake and then... the truth again! The book is exciting. What else can I say? Just read it. It is worth reading.
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