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Lawrence Durrell · 1960
A celebrated modernist tetralogy comprising four interconnected novels (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea) set in mid-20th century Alexandria, exploring themes of love, identity, and place through multiple narrators and perspectives. Durrell's experimental work employs a stereoscopic narrative technique to examine the same characters and events from different viewpoints and time periods.
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Alexandria itself is the erotic-political force that makes every love affair also a deception, and every identity a mirror held at the wrong angle.
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I had at times the impression of a woman whose every kiss was a blow struck on the side of death.
AQ-RC-054'I only allowed myself to approach you to save myself from the danger … I felt I was saving Nessim with every kiss I gave you.'
AQ-RC-100desire
This siege of Justine had been going on for months now. How would it end — with victory or defeat?
AQ-RC-506Overcome with nostalgia, he ordered his first drink of the Levant, forgetting how strong it was.
AQ-RC-577self-and-identity
We artists form one of those pathetic human chains … manacled together by the same gift.
AQ-RC-731Strolling in the foreground of the painting with the insolence of full possession, came plum-blue Ethiopians … woven like brilliant threads upon the monotonous blackness.
AQ-RC-620Illuminates
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