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Alexandria Quartet
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The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by the British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, it explores the misadventures of various European expatriates and natives in the years around World War II. It consists of the following books: Justine (1957) Balthazar (1958) Mountolive (1958) Clea (1960)The four novels deal with the same cast of characters and mostly with the same events, but are told from different angles. Balthazar is a virtual retelling of Justine, from the perspective of the later novel's title character; Mountolive is the story of a minor character from the first two novels that interacts unexpectedly with the previous story; Clea takes place several years later, but offers startling new information about the motivations and secrets of characters seen previously. | |
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Situational Sexuality | |
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Situational Sexuality: In the fourth novel, Clea conveniently decides that she's attracted to men—or at least to Darley the narrator. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The moneyed Hosnani clan. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Darley, especially, but no major character's viewpoint can be taken at face value. | |
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The Hedonist | |
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The Hedonist: This applies to virtually all the major characters. | |
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Covered with Scars | |
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Covered with Scars: Nessim and Narouz's mother Leila, due to smallpox—and to the shock of her old lover Mountolive. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Scobie's secret is largely played for sympathetic laughs. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: The brilliant, prolific, punchable Pursewarden. | |
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All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists | |
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All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists: It doesn't matter which character is doing so at the moment. | |
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Compelling Voice | |
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Compelling Voice: Narouz, whose spellbinding oratory makes him an increasing threat to himself, his family, and the English colonial office. | |
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City of Spies | |
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City of Spies: Virtually everyone, to some degree, is either a player, antagonist, or pawn in the machinations of the British Foreign Office. | |
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Mind Screwdriver | |
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Mind Screw Driver: Each book for the previous one, with Clea being the most revealing. | |
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First-Person Peripheral Narrator | |
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First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Darley, Balthazar, and Clea. | |
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Gayngst | |
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Gayngst: The fragile Balthazar, who goes on a months-long bender after being dumped by a young actor. | |
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Everyone Is Bi | |
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Everyone Is Bi: Or at least a suspicious number of main characters—Justine, Clea, ad nauseam. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Darley, the narrator of Justine, is a thinly disguised stand-in for Lawrence Durrell—they even share the initials L.G.D. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Darley raises Melissa's child after her death. | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Melissa, technically a dancer but in practice a prostitute. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: Turns out to apply to Pursewarden and his blind sister Liza. | |
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"Rashomon"-Style | |
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"Rashomon"-Style: Balthazar (in its perspective on Justine) and several of the reminiscences in Clea. | |
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Drag Queen | |
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Drag Queen: The old, grotesque ex-sailor Scobie roams Alexandria by night searching for rough trade, gussied up in his "Dolly Vardens." | |
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Perspective Flip | |
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Perspective Flip: The engine that drives the series. | |
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Just Before the End | |
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Just Before the End: For the Europeans, Copts, and Jews that comprise the novels' cast, postwar Egypt is on the verge of becoming various degrees of inhospitable, repressive, or even deadly. | |
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War Was Beginning | |
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War Was Beginning: The first three novels are set during the prelude to WWII. | |
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Speech Impediment | |
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Speech Impediment: Narouz is harelipped, which makes his oratorical and crowd-influencing gifts all the more surprising. | |
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Delayed Narrator Introduction | |
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Delayed Narrator Introduction: Although Justine's narrator Darley depicts himself as a character from the outset, we do not learn his name until the later novels. | |
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Sexual Extortion | |
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Sexual Extortion: In the end, Justine consents to becoming the mistress of the abominable Memlek. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: The polymorphously lecherous Capodistria. | |
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Missing Episode | |
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Missing Episode: Darley realizes that Pursewarden's posthumous memoirs are not merely genius, but a potential classic of Western literature. In deference to the author's wishes (and the papers' scandalous revelations), he burns them. | |
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Europeans Are Kinky | |
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Europeans Are Kinky: And even more so when they're expats. If one took the novels' depiction seriously, the city slogan should have been "Alexandria: When Being Eurotrash Just Isn't Trashy Enough." | |
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Hook Hand | |
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Hook Hand: After her diving accident, Clea acquires a prosthetic contraption to let her paint. | |
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Non-Idle Rich | |
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Non-Idle Rich: The philanthropical businessman Nessim and his brother Narouz, a demagogue and Coptic activist. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Nessim loses an eye and a hand during a Nazi bombing raid on Alexandria; Clea loses most of her painting hand after getting it (literally) harpooned underwater. | |
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Switching P.O.V. | |
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Switching P.O.V.: Both between and within the novels. | |
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The Muse | |
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The Muse: The real-life Greek-Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy is treated as a kind of tutelary spirit inspiring the characters and city. Justine is something of one as well—a previous lover wrote a novel, Moeurs about a thinly-veiled version of her. | |
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