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Article: A seductive spectacle: the languid bazaar of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet still beckons 50 years later.(Essay / Books)
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- June 22, 2007
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Speak the name Lawrence Durrell, as I have been doing recently, and you will have little trouble prompting the title of his masterwork, the four-novel cycle he called "The Alexandria Quartet." Yes, everyone read it back when. Or some of it. Justine ... Balthazar ... The well of memory tends to run dry about there, leaving only the wistful fragrance of the little remembered but not quite forgotten.
Yet half a century ago, when Justine appeared, it elicited a rush of critical superlatives that announced the birth of a literary classic. Almost at once the novel established an outlandish reputation for Durrell, previously known for a precocious first novel and some ...
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Article: Novelist Durrell frail, but he writes on
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November 23, 1989 ;
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... ... infirmity, British novelist Lawrence Durrell has found peace of mind in Sommieres ... Author of the evocative The Alexandria Quartet, Durrell, 77, is a small, frail-looking ... I have to be in the mood," Durrell says. "It's a voluptuous ...
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