by Lawrence Durrell · Faber Faber Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571055791
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«Balthazar» is the novel by Lawrence Durrell, published by Faber Faber Inc in paperback (214 pages, in English).
Second installment of the Alexandria Quartet: the action takes place in Egypt during the 1940s. The narrator, L.G. Darley, observes the lives and relationships of his lovers, friends and acquaintances; Balthazar, a physician and mystic, interprets these impressions from a philosophical and intellectual perspective, offering a new view of the same events.
The work is the second novel of The Alexandria Quartet, originally published in 1958. This paperback edition from Faber Paperbacks contains the complete text in English.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in mid-twentieth-century Egypt and twentieth-century British narrative.
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
