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... 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 Spoils
#44 Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
(The second book in the Alexandria Quartet series)
... than the Alexandria Quartet, 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 ...
... 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 for the Raj ...
... 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 York (2008); Stir Crazy (1980)
114. Justine by Lawrence Durrell 04/20/09
115. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 04/21/09
... 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 Giles Blunt
Agatha Christie by Gi ...
... 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). Admittedly, the omnibus edition is the ...
#15 karenmarie - I think the official order goes Justine, Balthazar , Mountolive, and then Clea. You should definitely read them when you get a chance!
... 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 ...
... 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.
... super transportable.
My other read this week is Mountolive, 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 ...
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#142 ktleyed - Isn't he wonderful?
I just finished The Magus yesterday, and so am alternating Bleak House with Balthazar , the second book in The Alexandria Quartet. I've become a huge Lawrence Durrell fan in the past week or so, and his writing in Balthazar promises to be ...
... 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 Clea is the dazzling finale to Durrell' ...
... I was made aware of his darker side, which continued to reveal itself in the other three books Mount Olive, Clea and Balthazar . Nevertheless, I was reading them in my relative youth, in the late 70s, and was rather proud of myself for doing so (faux intellectualism?). At any rate, ...
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Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin
Backtrack, by Joseph Hansen
Balthazar , by Lawrence Durrell
Bath, by Judith Newman
Black Cap, by Cynthia Asquith
... 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.
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