Title: Overrated
Product review: Durrell is often celebrated for the beauty of his prose. But compared to, say, Virginia Woolf or Proust, Durrell's writing often seems strained and self consciously arty. Many beautiful metaphors and, to me, just as many that fall flat and say nothing. Add to that characters who seem more like vehicles for ideas and actions rather than actual human beings (as V.S. Pritchett noted). Skip it and try Swann's Way or Mrs. Dalloway instead.
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