Livia, published in 1978 and sub-titled Buried Alive, is the second volume in Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan...

's The Avignon Quintet

The Avignon Quintet

The Avignon Quintet is a five-volume series of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1974 and 1985. The novels are openly metafictional and reflect the developments in experimental fiction following after Durrell's previous The Alexandria Quartet...

. The novel revolves around the novelist Blandford, introduced at the end of the previous novel Monsieur

Monsieur (novel)

Monsieur, published in 1974 and sub-titled The Prince of Darkness, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet. As a group, the five novels narrate the lives of a group of Europeans prior to and after World War II. Monsieur begins the quincunx of novels with a metafictional...

, and introduces us to the sisters Livia and Constance, both briefly figuring at the end of Monsieur, their brother Hillary, Constance's husband Sam and a number of other new characters. Blanford's creation Robin Sutcliffe, although dead since the previous novel, makes further appearances.

External links

• The International Lawrence Durrell Society Official website of ILDS
• Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary Centenary event website and Durrell Journal
• The Durrell School of Corfu School dedicated to the works and lives Lawrence and Gerald Durrell
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• The Lawrence Durrell Archives

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