![]() ![]() This story is not just a story where different characters might see things slightly differently but, as we see the same events as viewed by others, we get, in some cases, a radical different view of the action, changing our mind about the various characters and what they did and did not do. The basis of the novel is a story of a group of people in Alexandria, with the story told from several different viewpoints. This is a pity for, reading it again after many years, I found that it still stood up as a fine piece of English literature. Exoticism and exotic sex, so fascinating in the 1950s and 1960s, are now just a cheap flight away while a flowery style seems generally to be frowned on in this age of ten second sound bites. Best remembered for this book, his flowery style, his exoticism (and exotic sex) and complex plot do not seem entirely in tune with the current age. Inevitably, writers such as Hemingway and D H Lawrence come to mind, the former, with his simple sentences and machismo and the latter with his earthy sexuality both seeming somewhat out of date in the 21st century. There are many writers on this site whose reputations were much higher that they are today. The reputations of writers and their books inevitably rise and fall with literary fashions. Home » England » Lawrence Durrell » The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea ![]()
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