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The Alexandria Quartet
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“From Bathazar - 2nd book in the Alexandria Quartet
"Memory is a curious thing. It is never quite what it seems. We think we remember things as they were, but often we remember them as we wished them to be. Desire, too, is like that. It distorts, magnifies, makes us see what we want to see. The past becomes a landscape of dreams, and in those dreams, we are always more than we were."
— Chapter 2
"The light in Alexandria is unlike any other light in the world. It casts shadows that are more than shadows—they are memories, fragments of lives lived in secret. The darkness, too, is different here. It is not the absence of light but the presence of something hidden, something that waits. It is the kind of darkness that promises to reveal, if only you dare to look."
— Chapter 4
"Time moves strangely in Alexandria. It stretches, it contracts, it plays tricks on the mind. What seemed like a year might have been only a day. What seemed like a moment lasts for eternity. In this city, time is never linear, it is a spiral, looping back on itself, repeating and shifting, always moving forward but always returning."
— Chapter 5
"Alexandria had become like a tired, slumping prostitute, her beauty long gone, the life drained from her. She leaned against the war, sagging, older, lost among the ruins and the sense of inevitable decline that seemed to mark every corner of her streets. The city no longer moved with the grace it once had; it had grown tired, a mere shadow of its former self, its energy used up in too many wars and revolutions."
— Chapter 6
"The city is a ruin. It has crumbled into dust, its buildings leaning and sagging as though too tired to stand. There is no life here, only the ghosts of what once was. The streets are empty, the cafes silent, the lights dimmed. Alexandria, once vibrant and full of promise, has become nothing more than a memory of itself."
— Chapter 7
"There was the usual thick curtain of sea mist, the promise of distance and coolness. But it did not deliver."
— the sea is no longer promise but denial.
"Like a lover who will not speak plainly, the sea withheld its meanings."
— longing and miscommunication”
About Lawrence Durrell
Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912 to Indian-born British colonials, Lawrence Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. A passionate and dedicated writer from an early age, Durrell’s prolific career also included the groundbreaking Avignon Quintet, whose first novel,
(1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and whose third novel,
(1982), was nominated for the Booker Prize. He also penned the celebrated travel memoir
(1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. Durrell corresponded with author Henry Miller for forty-five years, and Miller influenced much of his early work, including a provocative and controversial novel,
(1938). Durrell died in France in 1990.
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