The Black Book (Durrell novel)
- The Black Book (Durrell novel)
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name = The Black Book
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author = Lawrence Durrell
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country = France
language = English
series = The Villa Seurat Series
genre = Novel
publisher = Obelisk Press
release_date = 1938
english_release_date = 1971
american_release_date = 1968
media_type = Print (Paperback)
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isbn = NA
preceded_by = Panic Spring
followed_by = Cefalu
"The Black Book" is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press. It is set with two competing narrators: Lawrence Lucifer on Corfu, in Greece, and Death Gregory in London. Faber and Faber offered to publish the novel in an expurgated edition, but on the advice of Henry Miller, Durrell declined [cite book
last=MacNiven
first=Ian S.
title=Lawrence Durrell: A Biography
publisher=Faber and Faber
year=1998
id=ISBN 0-571-17248-2] .. It was published in the Villa Seurat Series along with Henry Miller's "Max and the White Phagocytes" and Anais Nin's Winter of Artifice.
Although published in 1938, Durrell wrote the novel primarily over a 16 month period from September 1935 until December 1936 [cite book
last=MacNiven
first=Ian S.
title=Lawrence Durrell: A Biography
publisher=Faber and Faber
year=1998
id=ISBN 0-571-17248-2] . The novel shows several surrealist influences, and these may be in part related to materials from the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, about which Henry Miller was sending Durrell materials from Herbert Read.
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