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Panic Spring is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1937 by Faber and Faber in Britain and Covici-Friede in the United States under the pseudonym Charles Norden. It is set on a fictional Greek Island, Mavrodaphne, in the Ionian Sea somewhere between Patras, Kephalonia, and Ithaca.
Under the shadow of financial and political ruin, on the verge of revolution and war, the one chance summer depicted in Panic Spring will make readers reconsider the impetus and interests behind Durrell s late modernist masterpieces, The Alexandria Quartet, The Black Book, and Prospero s Cell.
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- Paperback
Unavailable for seven decades, this new edition of Panic Spring shows Durrell's emerging passion for Mediterranean life and the Greek world as well as his first attempts to articulate a political-aesthetic direction distinct from his peers, George Orwell and W.H. Auden.
- James Gifford
- 2008
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
30 set 2008 · Panic Spring, written a few years later, is a more experimental novel that takes Walsh to a Greek island and a community of expatriates. Both seem to have a strong autobiographical influence, which perhaps explains Durrell’s refusal to have them reprinted.
viii Panic Spring is the stylistic point at which Durrell moves from a realist mode similar to that seen in Orwell’s novels to an experimental frame that ties him to late modernism. Panic Spring is the key point in this transition, of-fering the missing aesthetic development that is not clearly traceable
19 mag 2015 · Under the shadow of financial and political ruin, on the verge of revolution and war, the one chance summer depicted in Panic Spring will make readers reconsider the impetus and interests behind Durrell's late modernist masterpieces, The Alexandria Quartet, The Black Book, and Prospero's Cell.
- Paperback
- Lawrence Durrell, James Gifford
