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Cargando... Justine (1957)por Lawrence DURRELL
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"A very remarkable novel: deeper in thought, more intricate in design, more distinguished in our style than most... Justine is altogether worth our delighted and admiring attention." "Brilliant...Durrell makes Alexandria seem a glitteringly sophisticated, dazzlingly beautiful, and suffocatingly evil place. ...The final effect is one of unity and great strength." "Demands comparison with the very best novels of our century." This extraordinary novel is a sensuous and beautifully written hymn to the "postcoital sadness" of mankind. [...] When the book is finished the people fade, but the riddles of existence and the cruelties of love remain as vivid images. And Alexandria remains as well, with its dusttormented streets, its lemony sunlight, where even the sulky young "struggle for breath and in every summer kiss they can detect the taste of quicklime." This is the best work of fiction I have read in some years [...] a book that demands comparison with the very best books of our century and specifically, since it treats also of recollected experiences of love, with Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Mr. Durrell has become a truly important writer [...] His people, his places are masterly. It is a long time since a new book obliged me to read so slowly, so savoringly. Pertenece a las seriesPertenece a las series editorialesBiblioteca Sábado (44) Los Clásicos del siglo XX (2.10) A tot vent (203) 河出海外小説選 (1) Contenido enTiene la adaptaciónPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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HTML:This "very remarkable novel"??first in the acclaimed Alexandria Quartet??tells a haunting story of love, desire, and deception in the Egyptian city pre-WWII (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between World Wars I and II, Justine is the first installment in the distinguished Alexandria Quartet. Here Lawrence Durrell crafts an exquisite and challenging modern novel that explores tragic love and the fluidity of recollection. Employing a fluctuating narrative and poetic prose, Durrell recounts his unnamed narrator's all-encompassing romance with the intoxicating Justine. The result is a matchless work that confronts all we understand and believe about sexual desire, identity, place, and the certainty of time. This ebook contains a new introduction by Jan M No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca.
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