In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically
to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de
scandale in Paris: "...Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a
new life which has regained its bowels." Henry Miller, realizing
that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked his ideal reader, responded:
"You're the first Britisher who's written me an intelligent letter
about the book." Thus began a correspondence that ended only with
Miller's death in 1980-nearly 1,000,000 words later. The
Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 contains an extensive and
representative selection of the total correspondence. Almost half
of the present volume has never been published before, including
some recently recovered "lost" letters; in addition, many passages
expurgated from letters published in 1963 have been restored.
Editor Ian S. MacNiven of the State University of New York,
Maritime College, is quite right to regard the Durrell-Miller
correspondence as a dual biography of the creative lives of two of
this century's great literary iconoclasts, a biography "At once as
serious as Schopenhauer and as winning as wine."
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