Justine

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JUSTINE
By Lawrence Durrell
'Mr Durrell is more than a novelist, he is a writer; from his "Black Book" onwards I have enjoyed everything he has done, and I think that in Justine he has found a form, a blend of imagination and memory, of analysis and dream, poetry and prose, which enables him, in the sun of Alexandria and the shade of Kavafy, to come into his own he studs his tale with impeccable and disturbing vignettes of his beloved city, ending up with a duck-shoot on Laké Mariotis, and he writes with a continuous chain-reacting intensity of landscape and lőve.' gyril connolly in the Sunday Times
'It was worth waiting for Justine: it is a masterly piece ofwork; something hard, shapely and indestructible, combining his originál and his more familiár virtues It is its classic precision that gives the book its strength one has no hesitation in acclai-ming this as a great növel, a successful attempt by a most gifted artist to express the tragic sense of life with... Tovább

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JUSTINE
By Lawrence Durrell
'Mr Durrell is more than a novelist, he is a writer; from his "Black Book" onwards I have enjoyed everything he has done, and I think that in Justine he has found a form, a blend of imagination and memory, of analysis and dream, poetry and prose, which enables him, in the sun of Alexandria and the shade of Kavafy, to come into his own he studs his tale with impeccable and disturbing vignettes of his beloved city, ending up with a duck-shoot on Laké Mariotis, and he writes with a continuous chain-reacting intensity of landscape and lőve.' gyril connolly in the Sunday Times
'It was worth waiting for Justine: it is a masterly piece ofwork; something hard, shapely and indestructible, combining his originál and his more familiár virtues It is its classic precision that gives the book its strength one has no hesitation in acclai-ming this as a great növel, a successful attempt by a most gifted artist to express the tragic sense of life with courage.'
john davenport in the Observer
the writing is brilliant in its clarity and brilliant, too, is the poetic mind directing it . . . Justine is no ordinary növel. . . It holds great richness and great beauty.' The Times
c. . . beautifully conceived.' The Listener
'Mr Durrell's use of language is both daring and fastidious In style, as well as theme, he is not ashamed to be both "savage and tenderly lyrical'V Twentieth Century
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
4He has achieved the rare feat of perfectly balancing and inter-twining emotion, sen-sation 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 to separate one from (Continued on back flap)
{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 timelessness1 and placelessness peculiar to works that are big enough to make a world of their own.'
The Times Literary Supplement \ . . the question which critics will 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 liter-ary 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 exu-berant in style and vision, reckless in am-bition, wonderfully prolific in invention.'
philip toynbee in the Observer
'Lawrence Durrell, in the Alexandria Quartet, has produced a great work of art. It is alsó 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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