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Article: Durrell's the Revolt of Aphrodite: Nietzschean influences.(Critical Essay)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Although The Revolt of Aphrodite is often considered an aberration in Lawrence Durrell's career, its scholarship insufficient compared to that of The Alexandria Quartet and The Avignon Quintet, the author argues that The Revolt makes significant contributions to Durrell's oeuvre and to modernist debates.
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The Revolt of Aphrodite, completed in 1970, is often seen as an aberration in Lawrence Durrell's writing career, standing between the commercially successful The Alexandria Quartet and his artistically culminating The Avignon Quintet. Critical reaction has generally "failed to grasp" (Fraser 149) The Revolt's ultimate purpose. It has been the ...