Robert Liddell

John ( " Jock " ) Robert Liddell ( born October 13, 1908 in Tunbridge Wells, † July 23, 1992 in Athens ) was an English author and literary scholar.

Life

Liddell attended the Haileybury School in Hertford and the University of Oxford. At Oxford, he also worked in the Bodleian Library. There he learned in the 1930s, the British novelist Barbara Pym know that he was critical in their first literary efforts to the side. Your friendship has been eventful literary processed by Barbara; the figure of the " Dr. Nicholas Parnell " in her novella Some Tame Gazelle is drawn after him.

He then went to Greece, where he worked in the British Embassy in Athens. After the German invasion of Greece in April 1941, he fled to Egypt, where he joined the Cairo poets, a group of English writers who had constituted itself there as a result of the British military presence in Egypt around 1942. After the war he settled permanently in Athens, where he died.

Liddell published literary writings - including reviews and literary-historical works - Translations into English as well as novels and short stories. He became better known by his lifelong involvement with the work of Constantine Cavafy, about whom he wrote a much-read biography, which was translated into several languages ​​(1974, several editions ).

One critic wrote of him in the seventies:

" Liddell, who lives in Greece for thirty years HAS BEEN learning to knowthat country with Increased intimacy, nothing is alien to Greek him: he is as much at home with the poets of Modern Greece as with Homer, in prehistoric Thebes as with the nomad shepherds of today. "

Publications

Fiction

  • The Last Enchantments, New York: Appleton - Century- Crofts, 1949.
  • Unreal City, London: Cape, 1952.
  • The Deep End, London: Longmans 1968.
  • Stepsons, London: Longmans 1969.
  • Elizabeth & Ivy, London: Peter Owen, 1986.
  • The Aunts, London: Peter Owen, 1987.
  • Child Relations, London: Peter Owen, 1994.
  • The Rivers of Babylon ', London: Peter Owen, 1995.

Non- fiction

  • A Treatise on the Novel, London: Cape, 1947.
  • Some Principles Of Fiction, London: Cape, 1953.
  • Aegean Greece, London: Cape, 1954. Landscape of Apollo. Rides through the Aegean world, Zurich -Stuttgart: Fretz & Wasmuth 1957.
  • The city on the Bosporus, Zurich -Stuttgart: Fretz & Wasmuth 1959.
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