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Article: Morrison, Ray. A Smile in His Mind's Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell.(Book review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 2007
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MORRISON, RAY. A Smile in His Mind's Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 529 pp. $85.00
Ray Morrison's purpose in writing A Smile in His Mind's Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell is to identify authors and ideas that influenced Durrell's early works--notably his novels The Pied Piper of Lovers, Panic Spring, and The Black Book. Critics and readers have ignored these early texts, mainly because Durrell himself dismissed his early novels and allowed them to go out of print. In his Paris Review interview, Durrell calls Panic Spring, for example, a "damn bad book" and even used the ...