Böcker av Brewster Chamberlin

Author and intellect Brewster Chamberlin invites you along on his personal journey through the culturally rich landscapes of Greece and France. From the author of The Time in Tavel: An Informal Illustrated Memoir of a Sojourn in Provence; Paris Now and Then: Memoirs, Opinions, and a Companion to the City of Light for the Literate Traveler; and Mediterranean Sketches. Fictions, Memories and Metafictions. "Illuminating!" says social commentator and art critic Hollis George.

An intellectually stimulating collection of other people's opinions, comments, and critiques of Paris. Chamberlin describes these snippets as "citations which illuminated one or another aspect of Parisian life and culture, or appealed to my sense of humor, however twisted this may seem to some readers." From the author of A Piece of Paris: The Grand XIVth; Paris Now and Then; and Kultur auf Trümmern.

A unique collection of short stories, poems, and plays by the author of Love's Poison and Other Poems, A Paris Chapbook, and Radovic's Dilemma. A Mediterranean Thriller. "A sojourn into the interesting mind of an imaginative intellectual," writes former Florida Times-Union book critic Pamela Paige.

Brewster Chamberlin readily admits one of the great pieces of buona Fortuna in his life was the 14 months he spent with Lynn-Marie Smith in a small village in the South of France just northwest of the old walled city of Avignon. This sprightly memoir is the story of those deeply enriching and adventurous months in a landscape both enchanted and occasionally dangerous, filled with the wildly magical scenes Van Gogh, Lawrence Durrell and other painters and writers have so vividly captured in their Provence-inspired work. Chamberlin's narrative takes the reader from the couple's first jaunty but seemingly frivolous thoughts about living in France generated by equal amounts of wine, food and frustration with life in Washington, through the serious matter of actually moving there and living through the vicissitudes of daily life in a countryside and language with which the couple possessed only a shaky acquaintance.

If Bookshelves GroanIf bookshelves groanIt must be with pleasure - Imagine being weighed downBy beauty and truth in print - Let us prayBuckled by Joyce and PrévertTesting the strength of your muscles - What delicious agonyStrain my tendons, PetrarchWith all your mental Laura lust.After allIt is what one carries that counts.Paris, November 14, 1987These Haiku-like poems and longer verses represent nighttime thoughts and inspirations written down while reading Sam Hamill's translations in The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bash¿, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets. Some of them are actually based on the work of these poets, but most are simply inspired by them. Others come from the author's own musings.

A series of chronological entries documenting Lawrence Durrell's life (1912-1990) and writing career, preceded by "Antecedents" (1851-1910), and followed by "Aftermath" (1991-2019), listing the main events connected with his reputation since his death. There is a 16-page "Index of Persons".