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Pied Piper of Lovers, published in 1935, is Lawrence Durrell's first novel. The novel is in large part autobiographical and focuses on the protagonist's childhood in India and maturation in London. It is followed by Panic Spring, which partly continues the actions of its characters.
- Lawrence Durrell, James Gifford
- 1935
Pied Piper of Lovers prompts significant reconsideration of the impetus and political tensions behind Durrell's late modernist masterpieces, The Alexandria Quartet, The Avignon Quintet, and Bitter Lemons. This new edition allows readers to reevaluate Durrell's complex role as a colonial writer in a postcolonial world by emphasizing his irony ...
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Sep 30, 2008 · Written in the 1930s, Pied Piper of Lovers traces the life of an Anglo-Indian boy, Clifton Walsh, from his childhood in India through his return to England and subsequent life in 1920s Bloomsbury. Panic Spring, written a few years later, is a more experimental novel that takes Walsh to a Greek island and a community of expatriates.
Pied Piper of Lovers. This is Durrell's first novel, published in 1935, shortly after he left England to live abroad until his death in 1990. It traces Walsh Clifton's Anglo-Indian...
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This puzzling title hints at an unhappy ending, for traditionally the pied piper leads those who follow him, here the lovers, to their death, by water or burial, in the mountains. The novel falls into two main parts: Walsh Clifton’s growing up at the foot of the Himalayas; and his coming of age in Bloomsbury.
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The trauma of leaving India for an alien home propels the novels concerns with colonial life and its wounds, transitioning from an idyllic rural world to London and Bloomsbury in the 1920s. Pied Piper of Lovers draws keenly from Durrell's own life and charts the emotional experiences that would drive the rest of his career.
- Lawrence Durrell
