| Evidence: | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's "Sea and Sardinia" and Norman Douglas's "South Wind"'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1933 and 31 Dec 1935 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Lawrence Durrell |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 27 Feb 1912 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | later writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | Britain / India (Parents English and Irish but Indian born) |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8902 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Gordon Bowker | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1996 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 55 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Gordon Bowker, Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell (London, 1996), p. 55, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8902, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
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