is the fruit not only of Lawrence Durrell's long residence in Provence but also of his last years of life. He had settled in the region after three and a half years in Cyprus and a brief hiatus in Britain, living finally in the town of Sommières in a large house bought in 1966 with proceeds from
The Alexandria Quartet(1957-60). He brought with him Claude-Marie Vincendon, whom he would marry in 1961 and who would die suddenly and unexpectedly of cancer in early 1967. Durrell married again – briefly – in 1973, but spent his final years in the companionship of Françoise Kestsman.
The opening sections of Caesar's Vast Ghost touch upon the author's own introduction to Provence, and include a striking scene that sets the tone for the remainder of the book. Traversing
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