El quartet d'Alexandria

The Alexandria Quartet is Lawrence Durrell's masterpiece and most admired. The sensual and corrupt world of Alexandria in the 1930s and during World War II unfolds in four novels each centered on a character -Justin, Bathazar, Mountolive, and Clea- who project different interpretations of the same facts and challenge 'usual progression of the conventional novel. In Justine's opening, the gray LG Darley tries to take on the traumatic end of his relationship with the glamorous and enigmatic Justine Hosnani and thus begins the exploration of a sexual and political intrigue that is gradually revealed and that the next three novels nuance or contradict. With a prose of indisputable beauty, now translated into Catalan by Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Durrell directs his gaze on a fascinating universe where the impulses of sex, life and death beat forcefully and which he himself described as "an investigation about modern love".