Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is among the greatest English-language literary achievements of the 20th century. In it, Durrell (1912-90) recounts the same events from four perspectives: ...
Lawrence Durrell—one of the greatest British writers and philhellenes of the 20th century—achieved spectacular success with “The Alexandria Quartet,” the first volume of which appeared in 1957. But ...
Transforming Lawrence Durrell’s massively complex Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Cled) into a single coherent film is an impossible task. Obviously. Four full-length films ...
TUNC by Lawrence Durrell. 359 pages Dutton. $6.95. Balthazar, second novel of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, begins portentously with these lines from De Sade’s Justine: “The mirror sees the ...
In his rise from an obscure poet to the author of those best-selling novels known as the ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, Lawrence Durrell had T. S. Eliot as his editor, and the Eliot he remembers, laughing, ...
The Independent: Book of a lifetime: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
I am embarrassed to enjoy Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet so much. It was an early passion of mine and one I revisit for the blowsy comfort it provides and for the disconcerting peeling-off of ...
British author Lawrence Durrell spent the Second World War in Alexandria, later using the city as the backdrop for the novels making up his Alexandria Quartet, writes David Tresilian in an occasional ...
“Like a sinus being ground to powder” writes Lawrence Durrell in a typically overreaching description taken from Justine, the first volume of his “Alexandria Quartet.” And his late-50s tetralogy is ...