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El Cuarteto de Alejandría Serie

Este cuarteto teje magistralmente intrincadas relaciones, amor y pérdida en el exótico escenario de Alejandría antes y durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cada volumen ofrece una perspectiva distinta sobre sus personajes centrales, revelando las profundidades de sus deseos y conflictos. Las narrativas profundizan en la naturaleza de la memoria, la ilusión y la realidad, desdibujando las líneas entre la ficción y la verdad.

The Alexandria quartet
Clea
Mountolive
Balthazar
Justine

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    Justine

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    'I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.' The tragic story of the mysterious and fascinating Justine, and those whose lives she touched in pre-war Alexandria, is told by her lover, an impoverished Irish teacher who has sought refuge across the Mediterranean in Greece. It is undoubtedly a love-story, but the real heroine of the book is its setting: Alexandria, the city 'which decrees that its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain'.

    Justine
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    Balthazar

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    "Balthazar" ofrece una nueva perspectiva de los eventos del "Cuarteto de Alejandría", enfocándose en la historia de Justine y el suicidio de Pursewarden. Aunque relata la misma trama que "Justine", su estilo narrativo y el diálogo entre cartas aportan mayor dramatismo y misterio. Esta edición incluye fragmentos restaurados por el autor.

    Balthazar
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    Mountolive

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    La llegada de un diplomático inglés y la conspiración de Justine y Nessim Hosnani destacan temas de poder político y sus intrigas, mientras la rica galería de personajes de Durrel enriquece la narrativa.

    Mountolive
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    Clea

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    The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era. Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alexandria Quartet. Some years and one world war was after his bizarre liaisons with Melissa and Justine, the Irish émigré Darley becomes enmeshed with the bisexual artist Clea. That affair not only changes the lovers, it transforms the dead as well, revealing new layers of duplicity and desire, perversity and pathos in Lawrence Durrell’s masterly construction. “A massive, marvelously concrete, deeply felt statement of faith. . . . His style glows with the mineral deposits of many cultures. One of the most important works of our time has come to an end.”—The New York Times Book Review “Clea rounds out the tetralogy with grace, beauty, and stunning impact. . . . This rich, exciting fare is Durrell’s finest writing style, a manner of writing few living authors can equal. . . . A magnificent achievement.”—The Detriot News “The reader is carried along on a current of superbly accomplished prose, as flexible and colorful as that of any contemporary writer. . . . What Durrell has given us is well worth having.”—San Francisco Chronicle

    Clea

  • The Alexandria quartet

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    • 31 horas de lectura
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    Consisting of Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea, The Alexandria Quartet explores the sexual and political intrigues of a group of expatriates in Egypt before and after the Second World War. In Justine, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the recent end of his affair with the dark, passionate, multi-faceted Justine Hosnani. Balthazar is named for Darley's friend, a doctor and mystic, and it provides a retelling of Darley's romance with Justine from a more philosophical perspective. Mountolive is the narrative of English ambassador David Mountolive. The final volume, Clea, finds Darley maturing into the knowledge that the gifted painter Clea Montis is the woman for whom he is truly destined.

    The Alexandria quartet