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Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, Book Four)

August 1, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version:  Some five years after Darley left Alexandria in the wake of his tumultuous affair with Justine, he returns to the city and his friends to find that everything has changed.  While the outline of the city is roughly the same, their mental and emotional landscapes are irrevocably scarred.  Eventually, Darley realizes he must leave the city that has so changed his life – but not before more changes smash through every last memory of that glorious time […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: 6, Clea, Fiction, Lawrence Durrell, Literature, Philosophy, The Alexandria Quartet, The Summer I Read Durrell

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Mountolive (The Alexandria Quartet, Book Three)

July 24, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: The story of David Mountolive, British diplomat – tracing from his younger days, when he first met Nessim and Narouz Hosnani, through the story recounted previously in Justine and Balthazar.  The story is, however, first and foremost political this time ’round – the hints of political turmoil that only occasionally surfaced in those first two books come to the fore in this novel.  Characters like Darley, Balthazar, even Clea and Justine, are relegated to secondary while the stories of Pursewarden, Mountolive, […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 6, Fiction, Lawrence Durrell, Literature, Mountolive, Philosophy, Psychology, The Alexandria Quartet

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Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, Book Two)

July 17, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: Darley, the narrator and ‘author’ of Justine, receives a bundle of… annotations from Balthazar that reveal an entirely different set of circumstances surrounding that dangerous love affair in Alexandria.  Darley is forced to re-examine what he thought to be true and the narrative begins to take on a completely different tone than what we’d previously experienced. The Review: This book is absolutely an intermediary.  This is not to say that it isn’t delightful – The Empire Strikes Back is the […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 6, Balthazar, Fiction, Lawrence Durrell, Literature, Philosophy, The Alexandria Quartet

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Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, Book One)

June 25, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: A story of conflicted loves, beautiful language, and the city of Alexandria.  An unnamed narrator details, in vivid flashes of story and moment, his life in Alexandria and the complicated sexual struggles in which he played a central part.  Justine, Melissa, Nessim, Balthazar, Clea, Pombal, Pursewarden, and a host of others orbit around the fascinating and mystifying central figure of the city: Alexandria. The Review: There are times when a book is delivered into your hands at a […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Justine, Lawrence Durrell, Literature, Technology, The Alexandria Quartet

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