Durrell Lawrence: Duh mesta

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Author: Durrell Lawrence
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Duh mesta

Durrell Lawrence

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Lawrence Durell: The Spirit of the Place

Letters and Essays on Travel

In July 1949, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed him press attaché in Yugoslavia. Living conditions in Belgrade were far from good. Yugoslavia suffered a lot under the German occupation, and the country still felt a shortage, or rather a lack of everything except the most necessary for survival; besides, the labor pains in which the communist state was being created could hardly have been the most pleasant time to live. When Durell settled in Athens in 1940, he soon befriended the "two Jorgos", Seferiadis and Katsimbalis, as well as many other kindred spirits. A friendship with a young Yugoslav writer in Belgrade, however, was cut in the bud, and the young man was sentenced to prison for associating with a Western imperialist. The members of the diplomatic corps, who were strictly forbidden to communicate with local residents, moved in a claustrophobic social circle where they constantly saw the same faces at countless receptions and where the guest list never changed. Durrell's diplomatic service in Yugoslavia ended at the time when Tito, encouraged and supported by the West, managed to tear his country from the steel embrace of Stalinist Russia. For those who worked at the British Embassy at the time and watched it all closely, watching breathlessly as the broken relations between the two countries slowly re-established, those were miraculous days. – A. Dž. Thomas

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