The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea - Lawrence Durrell
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"The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels - Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), Clea (1960) - by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. 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.
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 theme. The Quartet's first three books offer the same sequence of events through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives of a single set of events. The fourth book shows change over time.
In a 1959 Paris Review interview Durrell described the ideas behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Alexandria Quartet number 70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."
Price: R1100.00
Edition: First (one-volume) edition
Published: 1962
Publishers: Faber and Faber
Condition: Hardcover in good condition, with minor shelf wear around the edges of the cover, and top and bottom of the spine. Gilt lettering on the spine also shows some scuff marks. Internally in very good condition - very clean and tightly bound. Dust jacket has shelf wear around the edges, and one small but noticeable tear at the top of the spine. Covered in a protective plastic sleeve.
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 theme. The Quartet's first three books offer the same sequence of events through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives of a single set of events. The fourth book shows change over time.
In a 1959 Paris Review interview Durrell described the ideas behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Alexandria Quartet number 70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."
Price: R1100.00
Edition: First (one-volume) edition
Published: 1962
Publishers: Faber and Faber
Condition: Hardcover in good condition, with minor shelf wear around the edges of the cover, and top and bottom of the spine. Gilt lettering on the spine also shows some scuff marks. Internally in very good condition - very clean and tightly bound. Dust jacket has shelf wear around the edges, and one small but noticeable tear at the top of the spine. Covered in a protective plastic sleeve.