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| October 10, 1958 |
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| Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990) |
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Durell's Alexandria Quartet
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1958, Lawrence Durrell's Mountolive was published, his third novel in the series commonly known as The Alexandria Quartet. The sex and exoticism of the first book, Justine, had caused a stir when it appeared the previous year. Working in manic bursts (6 weeks for Balthazar, 12 for Mountolive, 8 for Clea), Durrell had the entire sequence finished by mid-1960, and the reviewers in awe of his "vertiginous erudition, his felicity of phrase and his astonishing powers of description." Mountolive is a relatively straightforward narration of the same events from pre-WWII Alexandria that are covered from other viewpoints in the previous two books ... FULL STORY »
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