![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins intriguingly with the unnamed narrator living on an unnamed island with a child he identifies as that of Melissa, a former lover now deceased. The key to enjoying the work is simply to float with it – relax, don’t struggle and enjoy the prose poetry while waiting for Durrell’s coastguard to rescue you. In other words, he based his Quartet on dimensions in physics and this is therefore experimental fiction.īe not alarmed, for it is quite readable. Justine, the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, was published in 1957 and Durrell (1912-1990) 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. So this review is made without knowing any particulars about the next three volumes, as I prefer to capture my thoughts as they evolve. After some deliberation I have decided to review the Quartet individually as I read them. It’s the Lawrence Durrell Centenary, in honour of which I moved The Alexandria Quartet to the top of my reading list. ![]()
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