Mountolive

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LAWRENCE DURRELL
'Mr Durrell's carefully wrought mosaic of Egyptian life Mr Durrell opens the story of Mountolive with another of the magnificent descriptive scenes which have been a feature of the earlier volumes Mountolive is written more easily, more naturally but no less well than the previous volumes. There is the same evocative picture of Egyptian life, although Mountolive's wider-ranging experience brings other scenes as distant as Moscow and London into the orbit of vision; the same air of mystery and excitement as more of the pattern and plot is revealed, the same feeling that here is a genuine reflection of poetic and human experience - and there is more humour than before, if often it is the wry, resigned humour of the disillusioned.' The Times Literary Supplement
'One's admiration grows . . . Mr Durrell is an artist.' john davenport in the Observer
'His prose beguiles us with marvels of virtuosity it touches briUiantly on an urgent and compelling political... Tovább

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LAWRENCE DURRELL
'Mr Durrell's carefully wrought mosaic of Egyptian life Mr Durrell opens the story of Mountolive with another of the magnificent descriptive scenes which have been a feature of the earlier volumes Mountolive is written more easily, more naturally but no less well than the previous volumes. There is the same evocative picture of Egyptian life, although Mountolive's wider-ranging experience brings other scenes as distant as Moscow and London into the orbit of vision; the same air of mystery and excitement as more of the pattern and plot is revealed, the same feeling that here is a genuine reflection of poetic and human experience - and there is more humour than before, if often it is the wry, resigned humour of the disillusioned.' The Times Literary Supplement
'One's admiration grows . . . Mr Durrell is an artist.' john davenport in the Observer
'His prose beguiles us with marvels of virtuosity it touches briUiantly on an urgent and compelling political theme a deeply impressive and pleasurable experience, which will delight readers oi Justine and Balthazar, and send newcomers to them with curiosity and high hopes.' RICHARD MAYNE in the Sunday Times
THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET 'He has achieved the rare feat of perfectly balancing and inter-twining emotion, sensation 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 timelessness 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 literary 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 exuberant in style and vision, reckless in ambition, wonderfully prolific in invention.'
PHILIP TOYNBEE in the Observer
'Lawrence Durrell, in the Alexandria Quartet, has produced a great work of art. It is also one of the most interesting pieces of writing, fiction, non-fiction, or journalism, that I have ever read.'
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