A Smile in His Mind's Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell (review)

Reviewed by: A Smile in His Mind’s Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell Julius Rowan Raper Ray Morrison. A Smile in His Mind’s Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. xii + 529 pp. Like Walt Whitman, Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) contained multitudes, an expansiveness reflected by the body of his work. For starters, his fiction contains the Egyptian world of The Alexandria Quartet with which many readers are familiar, the French world of the Avignon Quintet that fewer have visited, plus the largely forgotten [End Page 912] worlds of his early poetry, his minor works, and three pre-World War II novels that range in setting from Bangladesh…