Lawrence Durrell
Paperback | Pages: 253 pages Rating: 3.89 | 6634 Users | 720 Reviews
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| Title | : | Justine (Alexandria Quartet #1) |
| Author | : | Lawrence Durrell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 253 pages |
| Published | : | July 12th 1991 by Penguin Books (first published 1957) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature |
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The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed and purblind characters in this mesmerizing first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, the pursuit of knowledge leads to no library, only to the bedrooms in which each seeks to know - and possess - the other. Since its publication in 1957, "Justine" has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics. It is not so much a book as it is a self-contained universe, constructed by one of the most elegant and formidably intelligent minds in contemporary fiction.Present Books To Justine (Alexandria Quartet #1)
| Original Title: | Justine |
| ISBN: | 0140153195 (ISBN13: 9780140153194) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Alexandria Quartet #1 |
| Characters: | Justine Hosnani, Melissa Artemis, Nessim Hosnani, Clea Montis, Gaston Pombal, S. Balthazar, Josh Scobie, L.G. Darley, Paul Capodistria, Percy Pursewarden |
| Setting: | Alexandria(Egypt) (Pakistan) Egypt |
| Literary Awards: | Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1959) |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 6634 Users | 720 ReviewsAssessment Regarding Books Justine (Alexandria Quartet #1)
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.Full review of sorts will ensue when the tetralogy is completed.We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd (voice of Balthazar) p 92I kept going back and forth on this one... At times, the over-inflated language actually worked and it was able to touch on something profound and/or beautiful. But more often, the language was a hindrance. It was too much, too whipped up, too humorlessly serious and gaudy, that it was hard to take it seriously... especially when he is just talking about something trivial. it would've been better if the
I woke too soon. Unfortunately, I think thats the problem with this one. I feel like someone getting surgery who has gotten an insufficient dose of anesthesia, or someone who opens her eyes wide in the midst of a hypnotist act. I really wasnt looking to make you look bad, and quite frankly Id prefer it if youd put me back to sleep, but here I am, nonetheless, looking at you. Durrell feels like he was put in charge of the puppet show before he was ready. This is a test product, not something FDA
I enjoy the exquisite language and the general atmosphere of Alexandria wich Durrell puts down in this first book of the Alexandria quartet. But for me, though it was the intention, it is not for the whole near 1000 pages full quartet. I have to confess it gets a bit dull for me.
As you most likely know, this is the first book of Lawrence Durrell's acclaimed Alexandria Quartet. What is it about? Stupid question. Unless by "about" you mean, what does it feel like? It feels like a warm, ancient, beautiful, decaying, diverse, passionate, decadent city that seems to permeate the lives of its inhabitants, most of whom seem obsessed with sex. So it is a lot about sex and what it means, and how it relates to love and manipulation, and if any of this has any moral basis. There
For Once Four Was Too Few for a QuartetI decided to re-read "Justine" after something like 30 years before starting the subsequent books of "The Alexandria Quartet" for the first time.As much as I enjoyed the novel, I suspect that it will acquire even greater meaning and resonance once I've finished the Quartet.Each volume of the Quartet is named after one of the members of the narrator's peer group in pre-war Alexandria. The first page mentions four friends: Justine and Nessim, Melissa and
This is my third time reading this book, but this time I listened. It was amazing how much of the words I had internalized, and I found myself smiling along with some of the parts that were familiar. I'm looking forward to actually finishing the quartet this time around (fingers crossed) and reading the other parts of the story. The narrator does a decent job although some of the voices are so heavily accented they are almost hard to understand! The audiobook also had a track at the end where a
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