Their time in Corfu was mainly one of simple happiness: isolated, primitive, strangelyserene, removed from the wider reality of international events. Many years later Durrellsaid: I shall really never, never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. Itwas pure gold. They swam and sailed and he, finding his voice as a writer, completed hisfirst major novel, The Black Book.
科孚岛上的时光是一场简单的幸福:与世隔绝、简单淳朴、宁静异常,远离世间各国的纷纷扰扰。多年后,他回忆道:蓦然回首,发觉当年岛上的韶华永难忘却。彼时岁月纯净如金。那时,他们会一起游泳,一起开船;他也开始作为一名作家崭露头角,完成了第一部重要小说《The Black Book》。
Yet Lawrence and Nancy were complicated characters, and the marriage had its problems.Lawrence could be cruel and obsessively jealous, and would use words to lacerate anddestroy. The strains were evident when they met Henry Miller in Paris in 1937. Superficially,the visit was a success. But Lawrence, who was inclined to build a wall of ice to separateintimates from other people, was determined to keep Nancy on the sidelinesdecorativebut insignificantand Nancy retreated into silence.Back in Corfu there were times ofrare and precious content, but the onset of war changed things for ever. They moved tomainland Greece and in 1941 fled to Egypt. With Cairo under threat, Nancy travelled withtheir one-year-old child to Jerusalem; Lawrence was unable to persuade her to return tohim. He would marry three more times. Nancy eventually had over 30 years of lovingcloseness with Teddy Hodgkin.
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