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<p>The paper aims at highlighting significant episodes from the lives of Lawrence Durrel and Patrick Leigh Fermor, as reflected in their correspondence. With a focus on their concern for the craft of writing, the paper also touches some of the major political issues of the time, in the years after WWII. The Cold War period is reffered to with letters from behind the Iron Curtain, from Patrick Leigh Fermor’s first great love, the Romanian princess Balasha Cantacuzene.</p>
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The paper aims at highlighting significant episodes from the lives of Lawrence Durrel and Patrick Leigh Fermor, as reflected in their correspondence. With a focus on their concern for the craft of writing, the paper also touches some of the major political issues of the time, in the years after WWII. The Cold War period is reffered to with letters from behind the Iron Curtain, from Patrick Leigh Fermor’s first great love, the Romanian princess Balasha Cantacuzene.

Layers of the Private Epitext: Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Correspondence

PhD, Partium Christian University of Oradea

Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

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The paper aims at highlighting significant episodes from the lives of Lawrence Durrel and Patrick Leigh Fermor, as reflected in their correspondence. With a...

Layers of the Private Epitext: Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Correspondence

Published Online: Feb 01, 2023

Page range: 1 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amph-2022-0009

Keywords
correspondence, writing, political issues

© 2022 Dan Horaţiu Popescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Layers of the Private Epitext: Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Correspondence

Published Online: Feb 01, 2023

Page range: 1 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amph-2022-0009

Keywordscorrespondence, writing, political issues

© 2022 Dan Horaţiu Popescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
correspondence, writing, political issues