Category Archives: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
“The One Significant Work About Egypt’s Levantine World”: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff on The Alexandria Quartet (30 May 2011).
The Israeli novelist and critic Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917 – 1979) gave high marks to Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, calling it “the one significant book about Egypt’s Levantine world.” Kahanoff shared her appreciation for Durrell’s achievement in her 1973 essay, “A … Continue reading
Lawrence Durrell Versus the Zombie Apocalypse: Justine Has Cameo Role in Madeleine Roux’s Allison Hewitt Is Trapped (18 January 2011).
Over the last fifty years, Lawrence Durrell’s books have achieved a kind of iconic status, making cameo appearances in numerous works by other writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers. In Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch (1963), “boys in baggy sweaters and delightfully funky … Continue reading
