Birbs without wings /
The destruction of the Ottoman empire in the first world war and its aftermath put an end to a tradition of religious and ethnic tolerance in Asia Minor, the Balkans and the Arab lands. In place of the corrupt but uninquisitive old order, a half-domesticated nationalism ruined the old cosmopolitan c...
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Great Britain:
Quality Paperbacks Direct,
2004.
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| Περίληψη: | The destruction of the Ottoman empire in the first world war and its aftermath put an end to a tradition of religious and ethnic tolerance in Asia Minor, the Balkans and the Arab lands. In place of the corrupt but uninquisitive old order, a half-domesticated nationalism ruined the old cosmopolitan cities of the eastern Mediterranean - Istanbul, Salonika, Smyrna, Beirut, Alexandria - broke up any affinities between Muslims, Christians and Jews, and undermined every effort to establish liberal and prosperous states. There has been a century of war.
Romantic nostalgia for a lost world of pashas and cohabitation prompted Lawrence Durrell to write The Alexandria Quartet of 1957-60. A brilliant and overdue Levantine society worked out its destiny in prose as honeyed and indigestible as Oriental confectionery. The swansong of exotic English literary modernism, The Alexandria Quartet is now the deadest of dead dogs. |
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| Φυσική περιγραφή: | 624 p.; 24 cm. |