Clea.
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Clea.
First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's Clea; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
London: Faber & Faber , 1960.
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Item Number: 151667
First edition of the author’s final novel in his classic Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Autographed for Jeremy Mallunsin by Lawrence Durrell Jersey 1960.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket, inscription to the half-title page. Accompanied by a cartoon from Paris L’Express about a man simultaneously reading the Alexandria Quartet laid in. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Clea is the fourth and final novel of Lawrence Durrell's celebrated tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet, a sequence of novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s that stands as one of the great formal achievements of twentieth-century English-language fiction. Where the first three novels — Justine, Balthazar, and Mountolive — revisit the same events from shifting perspectives across space and time, Clea moves the narrative forward chronologically, completing what Durrell described as a design modeled on the relativity proposition in physics: four dimensions, four novels, one unified exploration of love, politics, and the nature of reality. The tetralogy as a whole was named by the Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Clea in particular has been praised by the New York Times for bringing the sequence to a close with what it called a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty.
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