Naming of Parts
Patrick Parrinder, 6 June 1985
Quinx or The Ripper’s Tale
by Lawrence Durrell.
Faber, 201 pp., £8.95, May 1985,0 571 13444 0 Show More
by Lawrence Durrell.
Faber, 201 pp., £8.95, May 1985,
“... is the history of the Templars, whose legendary Grand Masters were to Languedoc and Provence what Arthur is to Wessex. One aspect of Durrell’s ambiguous Grail consists – as befits a banned author of the Thirties and a former associate of Henry Miller – of ‘love-lore’ or the secrets of sex. These, which have something to do with ‘dual control’ in ... ”