The Alexandria Quartet: Justine · Balthazar · Mountolive · Clea
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
The Alexandria Quartet stands as one of the twentieth century's most celebrated achievements in English-language fiction, comprising four interconnected novels — Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea — set against the rich, sensuous backdrop of Alexandria, Egypt, in the years surrounding World War II. Lawrence Durrell constructs a dazzling literary edifice by presenting the same events and characters through multiple, shifting perspectives, drawing on Einstein's relativity and Freudian psychology to argue that truth is never singular but always prismatic. The sequence chronicles the interlocking lives of a group of expatriates and Egyptians — artists, diplomats, lovers, and spies — whose passionate entanglements illuminate themes of love, memory, art, and political intrigue. Written in Durrell's extraordinarily lush, poetic prose, the work presents Alexandria itself as a living, breathing character — a city of perfume, corruption, and transcendence. Widely regarded as a modernist masterpiece, the Quartet remains essential reading for anyone drawn to ambitious, philosophically charged literary fiction.
Author: Lawrence Durrell
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
The Alexandria Quartet stands as one of the twentieth century's most celebrated achievements in English-language fiction, comprising four interconnected novels — Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea — set against the rich, sensuous backdrop of Alexandria, Egypt, in the years surrounding World War II. Lawrence Durrell constructs a dazzling literary edifice by presenting the same events and characters through multiple, shifting perspectives, drawing on Einstein's relativity and Freudian psychology to argue that truth is never singular but always prismatic. The sequence chronicles the interlocking lives of a group of expatriates and Egyptians — artists, diplomats, lovers, and spies — whose passionate entanglements illuminate themes of love, memory, art, and political intrigue. Written in Durrell's extraordinarily lush, poetic prose, the work presents Alexandria itself as a living, breathing character — a city of perfume, corruption, and transcendence. Widely regarded as a modernist masterpiece, the Quartet remains essential reading for anyone drawn to ambitious, philosophically charged literary fiction.