![]() The Quartet offers the same sequence of events to us through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives to change over time.The four novels are: Justine(1957)Balthazar(1958)Mountolive (1958)Clea(1960)The novels, given their dense complexity, were written (compelled by pressing money worries) in an extraordinary short space of time. ![]() Lawrence DurrellAlexandria QuartetLawrence George Durrell (1912 – 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.His most famous work the Alexandria Quartet a tetralogy of novels was published between 1957-1960.A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II.As Durrell explains in his preface to Balthazar, the four novels are an exploration of relativity and the notions of continuum and subject-object relation, with modern love as the subject. ![]()
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