![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first novel in the tetralogy, Justine, is a deliberately cryptic journey through the recent past of a British teacher and aspiring writer, his name revealed in the later books as Darley. The central question of The Alexandria Quartet is the possibility of the endurance of love given the tenuous and contingent relationship between a given subject and object over time. Darley, who observes his friendships and romantic partnerships in Alexandria, observations complemented and challenged at points by other characters. The narrative is centered around a man named L.G. The fourth book is a partial retrospective on the events of the first three books, set in wartime six years later. Set in Egypt before and during World War II, each of the first three books narrates the same sequence of events from a new perspective. The Alexandria Quartet is a sequence of four novels published between 19 by British writer Lawrence Durrell. ![]()
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