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...metamorphosis of the gods, as Malraux describes it, was a little like the story of the Ten Little Indians. First they were sacred, then divine, then human, and then they were gone. This all took place between the creation of the Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret of the Sphinx, for he laid down the basic dictum of all sacral art-"to depict the hidden meaning of things, not their appearance." It is easy, but incorrect, says Malraux, to think of the Egyptian tombs "as country...
Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. The laureate of the wine-dark sea turns his sun-bedazzled eye on the islands of Corfu and Rhodes. To Durrell the Greek landscape lastingly utters one commandment: Know thyself...
PROSPERO'S CELL (142 pp.) AND REFLECTIONS ON A MARINE VENUS (198 pp.) -Lawrence Durrell-Dutton...
Corfu (Prospero's Cell) and Rhodes (Reflections on a Marine Venus). First published in England in 1945 and 1952, the two short books confirm Durrell's superlative gifts as a travel writer. As with Hemingway, part of his strength lies in using scenery to intensify personal states of feeling. His credo is on the first page: "Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder-the discovery of yourself...
...Streetcar Named Desire may not be Tennessee Williams' most perverse play (Garden District concentrates on such themes as sadism and homosexuality with greater relish), but I find it his most disturbing and powerful one. It doesn't rely on gimmicks, SYMBOLS like venus flytraps and half eaten baby turtles for its impact, but rather on the conflict which causes the slow psychological disintegration of its heroine, Blanche DuBois. The tension is inherent in the play's dramatic situation, in the human relationships it explores, and that tension should rise slowly from the very first scene to the play's piercing...