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Sicilian Carousel
By Lawrence Durrell
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“Superbly captures the spirit of that place and does so with a generosity of imagination rare in any writing.”
—Paul Fussell
“The personal perception of a place and a people by an artist who has the selectivity to see and the style to describe what he sees as well as any prosodist writing. . . . Of his topographical trilogy on Corfu, Rhodes, and Cyprus [Sicilian Carousel] is closest in spirit to the lyricism and humor of Prospero’s Cell; what sadness there is in his tone here is no longer the anger of human brutality that fired the prose of Bitter Lemons, only a quiet resignation toward loss and age and death—truths, he tells us, which ‘must be accepted with good nature, good grace, good humor.’ Durrell makes us feel that he has learned these qualities.”
—Harper’s Magazine
Summary
Although Durrell spent much of his life beside the Mediterranean, he wrote relatively little about Italy; it was always somewhere that he was passing through on the way to somewhere else. Sicilian Carousel is his only piece of extended writing on the country and, naturally enough for the islomaniac Durrell, it focuses on one of Italy's islands. Sicilian Carousel came relatively late in Durrell's career, and is based around a slightly fictionalized bus tour of the island. As Time Magazine put it, “His travel books arrive like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend—the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.”
About the Author
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) was born of British parents in India. He is best known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet, a series of four novels set in Egypt, but he wrote many other novels, travel memoirs, poems, plays, and humorous sketches, and is widely regarded as one of the most dazzling writers of the 20th century. Sicilian Carousel is the fourth of Durrell’s books to be reprinted by Axios Press.