On PBS lately we have been watching THE DURRELLS ON CORFU series
on Master Theater on PBS. Corfu is an Greek
Island (I think) The Durrells is a fatherless
family with a mother, two sons in their early 20s, a teenage girl, and a son
about preteen age. They are British. I’m
not sure why, but they spend their summers on Corfu island getting in one light
humor situation after another.
On the episode his this weekend the oldest son Larry accompanied
his mother to London because of a death in the extended family.
Larry is a published writer and have
developed pen-pal relationships with other
writers Several of his writer friends are living together
in London. Larry decided to look them up
and end up spending a few days with them and also his mother a couple of
days. They lived a very artistic
bohemian life style... walking around nude.
One of the resident writers was Henry Miller. I thought “THE Henry Miller?”
Then I remember a book I read many years ago that was
correspondence and letters between Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller.
I Google The Durrells and found the series is from Lawrence Duirrell’s memoirs of the times his family lived on Corfu Island.
Wikipedia told about each of his siblings.
In the series his youngest brothers Gerald Burrell is compulsive about collecting
wild birds, insects, and any other kind of animal on the island. Wikipedia said when he grew up he became a world-famous
naturist.
So this sit-come (more or less) is based on writings of a
real family pre-WWII and the mingling of influential writers of the time. What about that?
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