Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a Cited by: · Durrell is a marvelous writer. He can do comedy, melodrama, and magnificent action scenes, though he waits till the very end of his Alexandria Quartet to write the book's most exciting life-or-death rescue episode. The Quartet is full of surprises and great plot twists, and its characters get more interesting as the book goes along.4/5(93). The Alexandria Quartet is about “modern romance”; this book, Justine is the first of the four books. The first three books look at the same events but from different individuals’ perspectives. The second book, Balthazar is from Balthazar’s perspective. The third book is Mountolive and the fourth is Clea/5.
The Alexandria Quartet is experimental in style and metaphysical in content, so readers are often confused by the lack of narrative structure. Durrell is a meticulous craftsman; the novel is based. Lawrence George Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for The Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is a sequence of four novels published between 19by British writer Lawrence Durrell. Set in Egypt before and during World War II, each of the first three books narrates the same sequence of events from a new perspective. The fourth book is a partial retrospective on the events of the first three books, set in.
The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between and A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War. The fourth book is set six years later. Lawrence Durell, Paris, France, October After moving from Corfu to Egypt during World War II, Durrell served as a press attaché to the British Embassies in both Cairo and Alexandria. The Alexandria Quartet is a sequence of four novels published between 19by British writer Lawrence Durrell. Set in Egypt before and during World War II, each of the first three books narrates the same sequence of events from a new perspective.
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