The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea - Couverture souple

Durrell, Lawrence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571283934 ISBN 13 : 9780571283934

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2012

Synopsis

The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea)

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St Edmund's School, Canterbury. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1958. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, about Rhodes, and Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet, which he completed in southern France where he settled permanently in 1957. Between the Quartet and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps. Caesar's Vast Ghost, his reflections on the history and culture of Provence, including a late flowering of poems, appeared a few days before his death in Sommières in 1990.

Revue de presse

'Durrell was a master at creating and handling tension ... I was fascinated from the start.' -- Wilbur Smith

'One of the most important works of our time.' -- New York Times Book Review

'Intoxicating.' -- Niall Ferguson

'A formidable, glittering achievement.' --Times Literary Supplement

'The writing is nearly always superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also in the asides, the casual wit and brilliance of comment.' -- Philip Toynbee, Observer

'There can be no doubt of the magnitude of Durrell's achievement.' --George Steiner

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571283934
• ISBN 13: 9780571283934
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 896