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Alfred Perlès

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95:, Michael Fraenkel, Hans Reichel and others. Anaïs Nin writes that she first met Alfred Perlès in April, 1932. Miller and Durrell often referred to Perlès as "Joe" or "Joey". Some of these writers were featured in a magazine called 141:
but they were forced to leave at the time of the Turkish invasion in 1974 moving to England, where they lived in a modest house on a redbrick housing estate in the town of
313: 157:, Kavanagh dedicating a poem to him, "Quieter than Clichy (for Fred Perles)", An Enchantment, Carcanet 1991. He changed his name to Alfred Barret. He died in 1990. 107:
and Perlès fled to England (where he applied for, and was granted, British citizenship). A few years later, Perlès wrote a piece about this pre-War circle in
308: 78:(1956, orig. written 1940), in which the character "Carl" is based on Perlès. Other Miller works about Perlès in Paris include his early 91:
By 1936, Perlès was part of a vibrant Parisian literary scene that included Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and Anaïs Nin, as well as
283: 22:(1897–1990) was an Austrian writer (in later life a British citizen), who was most famous for his associations with 303: 74: 262: 118:
Perlès and Miller maintained a lifelong friendship. Miller visited Perlès in the UK and Perlès visited Miller in
288: 69: 84: 99:, which Perlès co-published in 1936, along with Miller, Durrell, and Nin. In 1939, with the start of 298: 293: 119: 267: 154: 27: 142: 138: 56: 92: 47: 277: 150: 61: 100: 65: 23: 31: 54:
during his early 1930s, where he worked for a while for the Paris office of the
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anthology, 1945, and republished by the Village Press as a chapbook in 1973).
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Later in life, he lived with his Scottish wife Ann, in a borrowed house in
134: 126:(written in 1954/55). Miller wrote a tribute to Perlès in the memoir 104: 43: 51: 227:
My Friend Alfred Perlès: Coda to an Unfinished Autobiography
68:- not yet known - took an apartment with Perlès in 50:Jewish parents, Perlès struggled as a writer in 270:at University of Victoria, Special Collections 263:A Miller chronology, with references to Perlès 72:. Miller wrote of this experience in his book 103:the group broke apart, as Miller moved on to 8: 145:from where they made regular visits to the 199:(by Hedwig Borgner, Trans. Perlès, 1957) 239: 314:French emigrants to the United Kingdom 7: 80:What Are You Going To Do About Alf? 14: 309:Czechoslovak emigrants to France 247:Diaries, Volume I, 1931 - 1934 1: 205:(with Lawrence Durrell, 1959) 149:to meet the poet and writer 109:Henry Miller at Villa Seurat 82:, and a letter to Perlès in 221:Scenes From A Floating Life 330: 215:My Friend Lawrence Durrell 173:Le quatuor en ré majeur 167:Sentiments limitrophes 124:My Friend Henry Miller 284:Austrian male writers 85:Aller Retour New York 75:Quiet Days in Clichy 304:Writers from Vienna 268:Alfred Perlès fonds 249:, 1966, p. 62. 197:Rathausplatz no. 16 120:Big Sur, California 209:Reunion in Big Sur 155:Laurence Whitfield 122:, where he wrote 321: 250: 244: 28:Lawrence Durrell 329: 328: 324: 323: 322: 320: 319: 318: 289:British writers 274: 273: 259: 254: 253: 245: 241: 236: 203:Art And Outrage 163: 153:and the artist 143:Wells, Somerset 139:Northern Cyprus 57:Chicago Tribune 40: 17: 16:Austrian writer 12: 11: 5: 327: 325: 317: 316: 311: 306: 301: 296: 291: 286: 276: 275: 272: 271: 265: 258: 257:External links 255: 252: 251: 238: 237: 235: 232: 231: 230: 224: 218: 212: 206: 200: 194: 188: 182: 176: 170: 162: 159: 113:The Happy Rock 93:Antonin Artaud 39: 38:Life and works 36: 15: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 326: 315: 312: 310: 307: 305: 302: 300: 297: 295: 292: 290: 287: 285: 282: 281: 279: 269: 266: 264: 261: 260: 256: 248: 243: 240: 233: 228: 225: 222: 219: 216: 213: 210: 207: 204: 201: 198: 195: 192: 189: 186: 183: 180: 177: 174: 171: 168: 165: 164: 160: 158: 156: 152: 151:P.J. Kavanagh 148: 144: 140: 136: 131: 129: 125: 121: 116: 114: 111:(featured in 110: 106: 102: 98: 94: 89: 87: 86: 81: 77: 76: 71: 67: 63: 59: 58: 53: 49: 45: 37: 35: 33: 29: 25: 21: 20:Alfred Perlès 246: 242: 226: 220: 214: 208: 202: 196: 190: 184: 179:The Renegade 178: 172: 166: 132: 127: 123: 117: 112: 108: 101:World War II 96: 90: 83: 79: 73: 66:Henry Miller 55: 46:in 1897, to 41: 24:Henry Miller 19: 18: 299:1990 deaths 294:1897 births 161:Other works 97:The Booster 60:. In 1933, 278:Categories 191:Round Trip 185:Alien Corn 234:Footnotes 147:Cotswolds 32:Anaïs Nin 62:American 42:Born in 135:Kyrenia 64:writer 229:(1973) 223:(1968) 217:(1961) 211:(1959) 193:(1946) 187:(1944) 181:(1943) 175:(1938) 169:(1936) 105:Greece 70:Clichy 44:Vienna 30:, and 52:Paris 48:Czech 128:Joey 280:: 137:, 130:. 88:. 34:. 26:,

Index

Henry Miller
Lawrence Durrell
Anaïs Nin
Vienna
Czech
Paris
Chicago Tribune
American
Henry Miller
Clichy
Quiet Days in Clichy
Aller Retour New York
Antonin Artaud
World War II
Greece
Big Sur, California
Kyrenia
Northern Cyprus
Wells, Somerset
Cotswolds
P.J. Kavanagh
Laurence Whitfield
A Miller chronology, with references to Perlès
Alfred Perlès fonds
Categories
Austrian male writers
British writers
1897 births
1990 deaths
Writers from Vienna

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