Saturday, October 1, 2022

Lawrence Durrell's ALEXANDRIA QUARTET - a very brief non-review

Lawrence Hall

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Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. What a ride! Love affairs, riots, murders, corruption, conspiracies, Copts, Muslims, Christians, Jews, British colonials, French Colonials, Arabs, Egyptians, revolutionaries, Zionists, existentialist angst, and family intrigues, written in the late 1950s and set in Alexandria in the 1930s and during the Second World War. This would make a great mini-series. There was a movie made in 1969 of the first book, Justine, and while the casting is good the film is poorly reviewed. I'll look it up on the Orwellian telescreen.

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