Lawrence Durrell—one of the greatest British writers and philhellenes of the 20th century—achieved spectacular success with “The Alexandria Quartet,” the first volume of which appeared in 1957. But ...

Transforming Lawrence Durrell’s massively complex Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Cled) into a single coherent film is an impossible task. Obviously. Four full-length films ...

“Like a sinus being ground to powder” writes Lawrence Durrell in a typically overreaching description taken from Justine, the first volume of his “Alexandria Quartet.” And his late-50s tetralogy is ...

TUNC by Lawrence Durrell. 359 pages Dutton. $6.95. Balthazar, second novel of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, begins portentously with these lines from De Sade’s Justine: “The mirror sees the ...

JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory continues to follow the high standards set during its first four decades of publication; the newly focused JNT showcases theoretically sophisticated essays that ...

It is common for critics to note of certain novelists that this or that location is as much a "character" in their books as their human characters can ever be. With Lawrence Durrell, the late British ...

In his rise from an obscure poet to the author of those best-selling novels known as the ALEXANDRIA QUARTET, Lawrence Durrell had T. S. Eliot as his editor, and the Eliot he remembers, laughing, ...

This essay discusses Lawrence Durrell's themes and characterizations as they pertain to ancient Egyptian iconography and traditions in The Alexandria Quartet. Journal Information Mosaic is a quarterly ...

I tell you love sister it’s just a kiss away. – Jagger & Richards Nothing but the act of physical love tells us the truth about one another. – Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell, like Jagger and ...