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The quartet is set in the egyptian city of alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the city itself as. Lawrence george durrell was an expatriate british novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Justine, published in 1957, is the first volume in lawrence durrell s literary tetralogy, the alexandria quartet. Paperback gerald durrell books for sale in stock ebay. Still, durrell recollects his time growing up with his family in greece with good humor and flair, making this trilogy readable and engaging. Justine herself is a deeply troubled woman who refuses to respond to. The first edition of the novel was published in 1957, and was written by lawrence durrell.
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Justine, the first volume in the alexandria quartet, was published in 1957 and durrell 19121990 intended the four volumes to be read as one, as a time continuum, with justine, balthazar and mountolive as interrelated siblings and clea standing alone as a true sequel. Justine legault bio, facts, family famous birthdays. To mark the event, culture trips uk literary editor simon leser revisits this investigation of modern love as the author described it, a rich evocation of. Set in alexandria, egypt, in the years before, during, and after world war ii, the books follow the lives of a circle of friends and lovers, including sensitive darley. The first in the tetralogy, justine is one of four interlocking novels, each of which tells various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from differing points of view. As a biographer, she writes about remarkable women spanning the centuries and the globe, sharing intimate accounts of their. Justine durrell is a biographer, poet, and retired attorney. Lawrence durrell project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Nessim seems to know, but chooses and or pretends, for as long as he can justify it, not to know. It is narrated by an unnamed british school teacher who is having a love affair with justine. He attended the jesuit college at darjeeling and st. Join facebook to connect with justine legault and others you may know. Justine is the first volume in the alexandria quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of alexandria just before the.
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Born in jalandhar, british india, in 1912 to indianborn british colonials, lawrence durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for the. In mountolive the third volume in durrell s alexandria quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of nessim, justine, narouz, pursewarden and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. In other words, he based his quartet on dimensions in physics and. Durrell s writing is exquisite though in another way so desultory that i could only read about thirty pages before falling into a deep sleep, no matter the time of day. His first literary work, the black book, appeared in paris in 1938. The opening novel of lawrence durrells alexandria quartetone of the most celebrated and original works of fiction to have come out of postwar europeturned 60 last month. Nov 26, 2012 gerald durrell reads some of his own stories about living with his family on corfu in the 1930s. Lawrence durrell, justine cardinal, 1957 well, my twomonth struggle with the first hundred fifty pages of the first novel of the alexandria quartet has left me with one resolution.