“About Durrell”
Nicol Hall 406, Beirut campus and via Webex
The Department of English and Creative Arts at LAU’s School of Arts and Sciences cordially invites you to attend the following presentation as part of the Departmental Brown Bag Lecture Series:”About Durrell: Novelist Through Modernity”
The lecture will be led by Dr. Omar Sabbagh, assistant professor at the English and Creative Arts Department. Drawing on research, publications and recent papers still under peer-review, from 2015 to 2026, Dr. Sabbagh will be presenting a summation of his work on the mid-late twentieth-century novelist, Lawrence Durrell.
The title of the conference is meant both literally and topographically, revolving around the author himself, as well as the modernist writers and themes that exemplified his era. Dr. Sabagh will share his readings of Durrell’s major works, The Black Book (1938), The Alexandria Quartet (1962), The Revolt of Aphrodite (1974) and The Avignon Quintet (1992), contrasting them with other contemporary works, thereby situating Durrell in the modern literary and historical contexts and highlighting his unique novelistic vision.
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