Durrell Writing about Writers Writing: Towards a Spatial Definition of "The Avignon Quintet"
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the reciprocal influence between Lawrence Durrell and the fictional writers he creates in The Avignon Quintet . In order to explore this blurring of boundaries between fiction and reality, I reflect on the confluence of two opposite forces at work in these novels: the Quintet both acknowledges its own status as fiction and gradually increases the feeling of proximity to a random, ineffable reality. Throughout this paper, I shall also try to interpret the shape of the quincunx and its three-dimensional development—the pyramid—as the narrative architecture where these two antagonistic ideas are condensed into a single process of creation.
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