Lawrence Durrell
Black Book
Black Book
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The Black Book by DBC Pierre is a controversial third novel that was first published in Paris in 1938 and was banned in Britain for nearly four decades due to its obscenity. It is a vivid, surrealist, and haunting work that peers into the recesses of our souls and establishes Durrell as a trailblazing stylist. The novel is praised for its stylistic and verbal inventiveness, its rich and obscene language, and its exploration of the darker side of human nature.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 17 June 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
The most exhilarating surge of language, style, and sordid English manners [in] literature.
DBC Pierre
A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ...
Richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny ... Above all, stylistically and verbally inventive.
Observer
Death Gregory has disappeared, abandoning his diaries in a seedy London hotel. Discovered by Lawrence Lucifer, they depict a clique of intellectuals living a life of squalid debauchery: struggling writers and artists consumed by loves, lusts, and a quest for innovation. But as they satisfy violent appetites of the flesh - and mind - their descent into darkness accelerates ...
Written when he was only 24, Lawrence Durrell described his controversial third novel as a two-fisted attack on literature by an angry young man of the thirties in which he first heard the sound of my own voice. First published in Paris in 1938, it was banned in Britain for nearly four decades due to its obscenity (influenced by Durrell's friend Henry Miller). Vivid, surrealist, and haunting, The Black Book peers into the recesses of our souls: and establishes Durrell as a trailblazing stylist.
Stygian prose ... Words like stones, throwing, rockerying, mossing, churning, sharpening, bloodsucking, melting, and a hard firewater flows and rolls through them.
Dylan Thomas
Genuine art ... Lavishly displays Durrell's gift of language ... Verbal brilliance.
New York Times
The first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction.
T.S. Eliot
Durrell's first major work ... Its showy brilliance is certainly that of a born writer ... Savage and obscene.
Guardian
Brilliantly strange ... It will astonish.
Independent on Sunday
Weight: 212g
Dimension: 182 x 203 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571362424
Edition number: Main
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