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Article: Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell.(Review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- December 22, 1999
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BOWKER, GORDON. Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). 480 pp. $29.95.
Ian MacNiven's long-awaited biography of Lawrence Durrell has finally appeared. It represents the work of virtually a whole professional lifetime. In its preface, MacNiven locates the beginning of his project in 1970 while he was working on the Durrell papers recently purchased by the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. Durrell had been approached by prospective biographers as early as the appearance of The Alexandria Quartet in the late Fifties, but declined all proposals to keep open the option of an autobiography. Nearing ...