Balthazar
1958 • 256 pages
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
The second instalment of the Alexandria Quartet, begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek island with the illegitimate daughter of his former lover, Melissa. The reader soon learns that many of the details from the first novel are unreliable and a very different version of events is gradually untangled.
Series
4 primary booksAlexandria Quartet is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1958 with contributions by Lawrence Durrell.
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Second of four in the Alexandria Quartet; review of the Quartet forthcoming. In the meantime, another favorite quote:
“Fact is unstable by its very nature. Narouz once said to me that he loved the desert because there ‘the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle-flames.' So it seems to me does reality. How then can we hunt for the truth?”
