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...LIVIA, OR BURIED ALIVE by Lawrence Durrell Viking; 265 pages...
Lawrence Durrell has written a duet of novels (Tune and Nunquam) and The Alexandria Quartet. Now he is literally trying to go himself one better. Livia is a mirror image and extension of Monsieur (1975), and Durrell has promised that three more novels in this series will follow...
Sian Phillips stands out as Livia, the wicked witch of the Tiber, who dominates all around with her icy, terrible beauty. Brian Blessed manages the difficult task of making Augustus, the founding father, appear both wise and foolish, the conqueror of the world who cannot manage his own family. Derek Jacobi's Claudius is half stumble and stutter and half genius, but convincing in every detail...
...that make speech bearable. Wisely opting for today's idiom, Scriptwriter Jack Pulman occasionally falls into the opposite trap, with lines like "The Parthians are at it again, always stirring up trouble!" And Pulman doubtless was merely having fun when he put in Livia's mouth Mae West's famous line...
...feminist, an historian, and a Wellesley graduate, I write in response to Gay Seidman's February 9 review of Livia Baker's book, I'm Radcliffe, Fly Me!: The Seven Sisters and the Failure of Women's Education, and in defense of women's colleges...