Durrell writing about writers writing: towards a spatial definition of the Avignon quintet

• Autores: Ramón Plo Alastrué
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, ISSN-e 2386-4834, Nº 17, 1996, págs. 207-226
• Idioma: español
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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.