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Prospero's Cell: Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu
 
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Prospero's Cell: Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu (Paperback)
by Lawrence Durrell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 143 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New Ed edition (20 Feb 1974)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571057586
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571057580
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 1.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 278,875 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A procession of beautiful images, 8 Jun 2006
Prospero's Cell is an autobiographical or at least semi-autobiographical account of a short period in Laurence Durrell's life. In a house on Corfu's coast, in the late 1930s, a changing band of friends enjoy wine, lazy days and philosophical ramblings. The book is in a diary format and there's no real story arc or any other such contrivance - just an account of the calm that, it turned out, preceded the storm of World War II. Far and away the best book of Laurence Durrell's I have yet read, it evokes a similar ambience to `A House in Corfu' by Emma Tennant - also highly recommended.

It's a while since I read mine, so let me give you my lasting impressions of it, if I can.

A backdrop of white rock, aquamarine water and the dusty green of olive trees.
Leisurely meals eaten outside - sun and shade and wine.
Goats' bells and the smell of pine resin.
Dark skin and red scarves, arguments and lovers - new acts taking place in a theatre of antiquity.
Textures of bleached driftwood and peeling boats.
Glittering bays, where you fish for supper in water that is clear to the sandy bottom.
The reflected light from the sea dancing on the cool plaster of your bedroom ceiling.

All in all - a feeling of emergent calm, populated by gods, that laps against you.

Whether you are rushed off your feet in some overheated city, or whether you consider your life to be already simple enough - read this. It might well be better than a holiday.
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