Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea - Brossura

Durrell, Lawrence

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571086098 ISBN 13: 9780571086092

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1986

Riassunto

'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.The writing is nearly always superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also in the asides, the casual wit and brilliance of comment.' Philip Toynbee in the Observer

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L'autore:

Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St Edmund's School, Canterbury. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1938. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, about Rhodes, and Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet, which he completed in southern France where he settled permanently in 1957. Between the Quartet and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps. Caesar's Vast Ghost, his reflections on the history and culture of Provence, including a late flowering of poems, appeared a few days before his death in Sommières in 1990.

Product Description:

Barcelona. 18 cm. 355 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'El cuarteto de Alejandría', numero coleccion(1). Durrell, Lawrence 1912-1990. Traducción de Aurora Bernárdez. Traducción de: Justine. The Alexandria quartet (Edhasa). numero coleccion( 1). Pocket/Edhasa. 52 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0571086098
• ISBN 13: 9780571086092
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 884