{"product_id":"prospero-s-cell-a-guide-to-the-landscape-and-manners-of-the-island-of-corfu-by-lawrence-durrell","title":"'Prospero’s Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu' by Lawrence Durrell","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-8 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWritten from Lawrence Durrell’s years on Corfu before the Second World War, \u003cem\u003eProspero’s Cell\u003c\/em\u003e is a diary, but also an act of imaginative possession.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFirst published in 1945, the book belongs to a form of Mediterranean writing in which the foreign observer turns place into style. Durrell records weather, fishing, local customs, conversations, food and the island’s shifting light, making up a private geography: Corfu as a place where landscape, myth and daily life continually bleed into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDurrell’s prose can be lush, theatrical and occasionally burdened by the colonial confidence of its period; the island and its inhabitants are sometimes made to serve his own aesthetic mythology. Yet the book remains compelling for its formal looseness and sensory precision, and for the way it preserves a world already understood as vulnerable to disappearance. For readers of literary travel writing, island narratives and books that treat landscape as a kind of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber, 2021 paperback edition, second printing. Light edge wear and minor cover marking.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45894787760211,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/prospero-s-cell-a-guide-to-the-landscape-and-manners-of-the-island-of-corfu-by-lawrence-durrell","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}