Frederic Raphael
Not a Great Writer but a Bit of a Word Painter
Boasting Irish origins: and born in India in 1912, Lawrence Durrell was a product of the British Empire and of its more or less glorious decline. The Alexandria Quartet, his greatest (and only durable?) work of fiction, began to be published in 1957, by which time the world which it depicted had already been disassembled by enosis in Cyprus and by the fiasco of Suez.
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'Jakobson protested, when Nabokov’s name was put forward for a full professorship of Russian, "Are we next to invite an elephant to be Professor of Zoology?"'
Donald Rayfield peruses Nabokov's 'public prose ... from juvenilia to senilia'.
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