
Balthazar
The Alexandria Quartet, Book 2
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Narrado por:
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Nicholas Boulton
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Lawrence Durrell
"The politics of love, the intrigues of desire, good and evil, virtue and caprice, love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria’s streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms - moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of plot and counter-plot."
In Balthazar, the second volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the story and the characters come more clearly into focus. Darley, the reflective Englishman, receives from Balthazar, the pathologist, a mass of notes that attempt to explain what really happened between the tempestuous Justine, her husband, Nessim, Clea the artist, and Pursewarden the writer; new figures emerge and play key roles. Balthazar, in his "Interlinear", explains and warns.
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Tracked down in exile on a remote Greek isle with the child of another illicit relationship between Darley's mistress and Justine's husband by Balthazar, to whom Darley had sent the manuscript of the book Justine, the old Alexandria doctor had made numerous notes to the novel manuscript that gave greater clarity to the real events that inspired the work of fiction. This prompts the telling of one major significant event that occurred during Carnival, strangely celebrated in this mostly Muslim city as a universally indulged three days of decadence.
I found this story fascinating as I was unaware of the holiday, traditionally associated with overwhelming Catholic communities, which is still celebrated in Alexandria today. Though not as graphic as #henrymiller , his influence is obvious and Durrell's appreciation of #grahamgreene and the interesting #scobie connection grows clearer in this decadent account of ex-pat life in colonial Egypt. Book Three, #mountolive , is already in my queue. #readtheworld #readtheworldchallenge @globalreadingchallenge #englishnovel #englishliterature #modernlibrarytop100novels
In the Season of Carnival in Alexandria
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Brilliant prose. Classic?
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