Balthazar

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LAWRENCE DURRELL
the characters are as vivid, as challenging, as firmly drawn as ever, steeped through and through with the atmosphere and being of Alexandria, the fabulous city of many races and many religions, with all its attributes of beauty, antiquity, perversity and decadence. Among living writers there are few to equal and none to surpass Mr Durrell in evoking the living mystery of a specific place: his Alexandria exists in depth and his characters partake both of its depth and mystery. Balthazar demands and deserves close attention in reading. It is brilliant in the primary sense of the word : gleaming with light, flashing with colour and sparkling with wit and perception.'
WALTER ALLEN in the Mew Statesman
'His achievement in this series of novels is manifold, and a buoyant creativity in matters of construction is only a small, though eminently significant, part of it. . . Mr Durrell's seriousness, because it is true seriousness, is never remotely solemn. If... Tovább

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LAWRENCE DURRELL
the characters are as vivid, as challenging, as firmly drawn as ever, steeped through and through with the atmosphere and being of Alexandria, the fabulous city of many races and many religions, with all its attributes of beauty, antiquity, perversity and decadence. Among living writers there are few to equal and none to surpass Mr Durrell in evoking the living mystery of a specific place: his Alexandria exists in depth and his characters partake both of its depth and mystery. Balthazar demands and deserves close attention in reading. It is brilliant in the primary sense of the word : gleaming with light, flashing with colour and sparkling with wit and perception.'
WALTER ALLEN in the Mew Statesman
'His achievement in this series of novels is manifold, and a buoyant creativity in matters of construction is only a small, though eminently significant, part of it. . . Mr Durrell's seriousness, because it is true seriousness, is never remotely solemn. If Balthazar is harrowing it is also remarkably funny with the publication oiJustine and Balthazar he seems to me to establish himself as among the best and most necessary living writers of our language.' Hilary corke in the Listener
' the same rare and heady mixture of wit, poetry and scholarship, laden with a pagan melancholy, yet shot with laughter it is fascinating to see a serious work of art taking shape . . . Mr Durrell is nothing if not entertaining.' john davenport in the Observer
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET 'He has achieved the rare feat of perfectly balancing and inter-twining emotion, sensation and thinking, through four novels, all so closely woven together that once you have them all in your head they fuse and it is no longer possible co separate one from {Continued on back flap)
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{Continuedfrom front flap) the other three If ever a work bore an instantly recognizable signature on every sentence, this is it. It is in fact a formidable, glittering achievement; and not the least remarkable thing about it is that in spite of the all-pervading spirit of Alexandria, it has, too, a timelessness and placelessness peculiar to works that are big enough to make a world of their own.'
The Times Literary Supplement
. . the question which critics v^nll have to ask themselves is not whether these books are good or not but whether or not they constitute a masterpiece . . . His work presses upon all the most important literary questions of our time . . . Mr Durrell has written about a dozen real love stories, entwined them, explored them with a truly Proustian ferocity and set them all against the marvellous background of Alexandria in the late thirties and early forties. He is a romantic by temperament, dazzlingly exuberant in style and vision, reckless in ambition, wonderfully prolific in invention.'
PHILIP TOYNBEE in the Observer
'Lawrence Durrell, in the Alexandria Quartet, has produced a great work of art. It is also one of the most interesting pieces of writing, fiction, non-fiction, or journalism, that I have ever read.'
ALISTAIR ELIOT on the Third Programme
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