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Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence
In the tradition of his other books about islands, Caesar's Vast Ghost is not a travel guide, it is a reflection on a landscape, the people in it, and the ideas and thoughts that are engendered by the collision of those in the fecund mind of a writer of Durrell's unquestionable power and skill. |
The
final book published during Durrell's life, Caesar's Vast Ghost
is a tribute to the land in which Durrell spent the final decades
of his life, in the south of France. It may be difficult for
readers even a decade later to understand the attraction that
France has always held for writers and artists, and those on
the wrong side of the francophobe line might do best to hold
their attention on Durrell's earlier books about places.