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There are two quartets that employ the multiple character perspective:
Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet:
Justine
Balthazar
Mountolive
Clea
Paul Scott's Raj quartet
The Jewel in the Crown
The Day of the Scorpion
The Towers of Silence
A Division of the Spo ...
#44 Justine by Lawrence Durrell
(The first book in the Alexandria Quartet series)
... Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy at the beginning of this year which was rather epic.
You have me interested in reading Lawrence Durrell now, I just had a quick look at his bio on wikipedia.
... but I think the latter has more depth - if only because of its construction. After all, Balthazar tells the story of Justine through different eyes, MountOlive covers the timeline of both the earlier novels, and Clea looks back with hindsight at the events of the previous three books. ...
... in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
899. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
905. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
949. Justine Marquis de Sade
952. The 120 Days of Sodom Marquis de Sade (I have read the prologue, which was available as a separate book and according to many comments is ...
... 22 years ago and have subsequently read much of Durrells other fiction and travel writing, but have acquired the Folio Justine and Balthazar and am having trouble rereading, as the prose seems so 'purple'. Will still probably acquire the two other volumes.
Am myself thinking about asking ...
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Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 25, 2009, 2:09pm)
Portia, I laughed out loud (literally, not the LOL kind) at your comment about Dianetics and Justine . I think there should be a new category called OMG_WTF. I'm going to start using it as a tag.
21. Justine (July)
As finished:
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Light in August by W ...
... time to finish The Haunting of Hill House. It's such an easy read and so beautifully written. I'm about three chapters into Justine (the 4th, final chapter will be quite short) and I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm just drifting along with the narrator's voice, picturing the several scenes and ...
...
The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
The Kama Sutra
The Perfumed Garden
And for those who want some darker stuff:
Justine by DAF Sade
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Artaud Anthology by Antonin Artaud, Intro by Susan Sontag
The Order of Things by Michel Fouca ...
I am excited about your upcoming books. I have book one of the Alexandria Quartet, Justine , so I can't wait to see what you think. Also, I have been wanting to read The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Haunting of Hill House. I did not know about the cat book, but it looks interesting as well. ...
... savor that as well).
moon tiger tied for best of the year so far. another book in which i got swept away. kind of like justine in its ability to evoke a sense of time and place.
... the mystery that made it so appealing (they're an intellectual exercise in perspective and context.) If you don't care for Justine there's no point in continuing the series so you needn't worry about completing the set at this point.
I thought Justine was fantastic but I was less enamored with the rest of the quartet (although I will certainly reread it in the future.)
I've read the de Sade Justine ...how about Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
The Alexandria Quartet is Durrell's, Cedric; we're looking for someone who's read the *other* Justine on our list ~ the one by Marquis de Sade.
... 16/09
112. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 04/18/09
113. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham 04/19/09
114. Justine by Lawrence Durrell 04/20/09
115. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 04/21/09
FILM: Frenzy (1972); Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993); Synecdoche, New ...
I know that once-upon-a-time I added Justine by Lawrence Durrell. Haven't read the other Justine, though. I have seen the movie "Quills". Does that count? ;-)
114. Justine by Lawrence Durrell 04/20/09
115. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 04/21/09
... the Library Sale. I spent almost 2 hours and forced myself to leave, was only $4 over budget and got these great books:
Justine , Clea, Mountolive, and Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell – The Alexandria Quartet – all hardcovers, 2 are first editions
Forty Words for Sorrow by Gi ...
Which Justine ? Durrell's or Sade's?
Maybe if I had had your attitude I would have absolutely loved Justine .
I think part of my problem with some of these canonical writers is that I was simply too young to "get" them when I read them. One of my reading resolutions for this year should be to re-read one or two books I hated ...
... I did read The Alexandria Quartet and was fascinated by the recursiveness of the storytelling. I still like Justine the best of them all.
... Reage, 1960's
163. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 2007
164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1980's
165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell , 1969
166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1968
167. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1967
168. The Midwich Cuckoos, Wyndham, 1960's
169. Vo ...
... Reage, 1960's
163. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 2007
164. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1980's
165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell , 1969
166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1968
167. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1967
168. The Midwich Cuckoos, Wyndham, 1960's
169. Vo ...
... impressions of the four books - the original Faber & Faber ones - will set you back between $1000 and $3000. My copies are Justine (1st edition / 5th impression), Balthazar (1st edition / 6th impression), Mountolive (1st edition / 4th impression) and Clea (1st edition / 4th impression). Ad ...
sanddancer#12 - I 'm with you on the lawrence Durrell book--I remember reading Justine and several of his others way back years ago because my then-current beau was so enamored of them. I really didn't like them, had almost forgotten how painful I found it reading them because I kept ...
After reading The Alexandria Quartet this year, I love Lawrence Durrell. Justine is the only book of the quartet on the 1001 list, but it's wonderful. Charles Dickens, of course, is fantastic.
... that Durrell's characters are often based on classical figures, making them more representations).
ps - you can read Justine as a paean to one of your favourite writers - Constantine Cavafy.
I haven't read any of The Alexandria Quartet for years, and then only Justine , but I don't feel like rushing back to it.
I bought Caesar's Vast Ghost a couple of years ago, when I was on holiday in Provence, and tried to read it in situ. Couldn't get through it. Over-cooked and over-seasone ...
Just got a shipment...
Cartographia by Vincent Virga
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Culpeper's Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (from Folio)
Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter... by Herman Melville (from LOA)
#15 karenmarie - I think the official order goes Justine , Balthazar, Mountolive, and then Clea. You should definitely read them when you get a chance!
... the same meagre offerings as the website...Fortey's Life looks very good. Gogol's ,Collected Short Stories , Justine , Parkman's Oregon Trail, History of the Arab Peoples, and Balzac's Lost Illusions will probably tempt me too much to avoid signing up this year. But like ...
... way, I went ahead and renewed. I just couldn't wait any longer. I ordered Joan of Arc, Easy and Not-So-Easy Pieces, Justine , and Touching the Void. They are all totally different from each other. I hope that I like them.
Some items really pleased me--The Long Weekend, Justine , and Lark Rise to Candleford, but on the whole I think my Folio Society budget will be more reasonable this year. (Now I'm fighting the temptation to get Night Thoughts and the complete Pepys Diary.)
... a lot more sense. I miss Darley as the narrator, though. Unreliable as he may be, and confusing as the plot sometimes is, Justine and Balthazar are beautiful, almost like poetry, and Mountolive was just a story. On to Clea!
... 61 Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
So this is the second book in the Alexandria Quartet, and it's just as good as Justine . The only problem is that this book contradicted everything (plot points, character motivation, etc etc) from Justine so now I have even less of an idea what is ...
... if you're gonna read the Alexandria Quartet, you should begin with Mountolive, so you know exactly what's going on in Justine and Balthazar before you pick them up.
Me! Me! One of my top 10 books ever! I hope I don't kill the thread, but has anyone here read Justine by Lawrence Durrell?
... book three in The Alexandria Quartet. I just finished Balthazar yesterday, which showed everything that happened in Justine in a completely new light, so it'll be interesting to see how Mountolive will change things up some more.
Jfetting - I was thinking of reading Justine soon so glad to hear someone enjoyed it.
I've really loved reading this month and its been hard to narrow it down to three but I think my favourites were
1. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - a thought-provoking idea for a story and a very ...
1. Justine by Lawrence Durrell - a strange and complex and wonderful book.
2. Thank You, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse - hilarious.
3. Finn by Jon Clinch - Dark and disturbing and hard to read in parts, but such good writing.
... a huge Lawrence Durrell fan in the past week or so, and his writing in Balthazar promises to be just as good as in Justine .
... Kafka's The Trial without the Kafka genius and with more sex. It was very easy to read, which was a nice change after Justine , especially since I'm heading into the rest of The Alexandria Quartet, along with Bleak House. I will definitely be hunting up Fowles's other books.
# 59 Justine by Lawrence Durrell
The first book in The Alexandria Quartet, and it's fantastic. It took me awhile to read for such a thin book - his sentences are so complicated and the narrative jumps around a lot and he does a lot of referring to events that haven't yet occurred (the ...
#123, jfetting, I read Justine and the rest of the Alexandria Quartet more than 30 years ago, but I remember loving it too.
... I've been reading several books at once for a couple of weeks and finished them all this weekend, so now I'm reading Justine by Lawrence Durrell and The Magus by John Fowles. I like them both so far, but Justine is fantastic. I can't put it down.
Yes, it is...from Justine . All yours.
After a trip to the library, I came back with:
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Gathering by Anne Enright
I think that everything else I am reading right now is going to be set aside for some quality time with Bertie and Jeeves.
#52, cmt: Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is one of my all-time favorite things. The brilliant Justine tell the very mysterious story from one angle, followed by Balthazar which develops it all a step further, and it's retold yet again in Mountolive, but from a much clearer prespective, and Cl ...
I read Lawrence Durrell's Justine ages ago, but still have the book, with its many underlined words. A few examples:
vulpine - resembling a fox, crafty
succubus -demon assuming female form to have sex with men in their sleep.
meretricious - tawdrily attractive
protean - readily ...
... Cold Blood (408)
16. To Kill a Mockingbird (456)
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's (467)
18. Doctor Zhivago (486)
19. Justine (488)
20. Lolita (496)
21. The Story of O (506)
22. Lord of the Flies (508)
23. For Whom the Bell Tolls (587)
24. The Power and the Glory (589)
25. ...
... A Guide To The Landscape And Manners Of The Island Of Corcyca, each of which I found beautifully poetic. However, in Justine , the first book of The Alexandria Quartet I was made aware of his darker side, which continued to reveal itself in the other three books Mount Olive, Clea and ...
Justine - Lawrence Durrell. Definitely a favorite, book one of The Alexandria Quartet. A friend first introduced me to this author by way of Bitter Lemons. I recently bought his biography Through The Dark Labyrinth by Gordon Bowker.
... list include Catch-22, Memoirs Of Hadrian, The Robber Bride, The Magus, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Justine , War And Peace, and Little Women.
While in Bookman's this week I picked up Hideous Kinky based upon the review (exotic locales, my favorite).
The books ...
... ille
J: Notes from the Underground , Fyodor Dostoyevsky
J: The Moonstone , Wilkie Collins
A: Justine Under the Greenwood Tree , Thomas Hardy
O: The Charterhouse of Parma , Stendhal
N: The Black Sheep , ...
Kind of a short one, but:
Justine , If Not Now, When Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?
Sorry, the touchtones wouldn't work for the last book.
... 3/11/08)
4) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (finished 5/13/08)
5) Metamorphoses by Ovid (finished 6/12/08)
6) Justine by the Marquis de Sade (finished 8/17/08)
7) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (finished 11/13/08)
8) Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm (finished 12/30/08) ...
11. Justine by L.Durrell
Although I have the quartet I think I will stop after this one. I dislike the characters and find it all very tedious.
... and other martial arts, a shelf of fantasy and science fiction. Other books scattered around are Shakespeare's Lives, The Alexandria Quartet , Deathhouse Gates, Chin P'ing Mei and Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature.
The book on the table beside me, that I am reading now, ...
how about Justine from a novel by the Marquis de Sade?
or Miss Havisham or Estella from Great Expectations?
... of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin by Susan Nagel
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen aka the Baroness Blixen
Justine by the Marquis de Sade
Is Paris Burning?
Kabul In Winter
The Alexandria Quartet
Our Man In Havana
Journey To Kars
... as are Nabokov's, Joyce's or folks like that. They haven't brought anything new. I think Lawrence Durrell Justine , or the full Quartet of Alexandria is a classic, don't know if it's old enough. Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Javier Marias (Check him out, as he's one ...
... arth
tobacco road by Erskine Caldwell
Engine Summer by John Crowley
Pavane by Keith Roberts
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell rather then just Justine
The Rewriting of Njals Saga: Translation, Ideology, and Icelandic Sagas (Topics in Translation, 1 ...
... ere:
Grapes of Wrath,Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Tortilla Flat, and In Dubious Battle all by John Steinbeck
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Cancer Ward by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Pickwick Papers by Charles ...
... so take it as it comes. Wish I could write like that. The man understands sentences.
My current literary endeavor is Justine by Lawrence Durell. It's far more elusive than I was led to believe.
... books that cover the same basic events in Alexandria from four different viewpoints ... the individual titles are Clea, Justine , Balthazar and Mountolive ... pretty good stuff here ... he also wrote a five-book series that tries to do the same thing, but I haven't read that.
Durrell's epigraph from Justine is from de Sade's own Justine . There's also a quote from Freud, but this isn't it. All of the books in the Alexandria quartet (which I just read) have epigraphs from de Sade.
I'm guessing On the Beach for the one about nukes, and something by Saramago ...
... tagged 136 frontispiece quotations. My favorite is one I ran across again serendipitiously, from Lawrence Durrell's Justine : "I am accustoming myself to the idea of regarding every sexual act as a process in which four persons are involved. We shall have a lot to discuss about that." I ...
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