by Lawrence Durrell · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253028963
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«Justine» is the novel by Lawrence Durrell, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (432 pages, in French).
Set in Alexandria before the Second World War, the novel follows an anonymous English teacher and his relationship with Justine, the enigmatic wife of a wealthy Copt named Nessim. Love, desire, identity and the subjective nature of reality appear in a fragmented structure of multiple perspectives.
Justine is the first installment of The Alexandria Quartet. The novel, originally published in 1957, won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1959.
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century classics interested in Egypt and multi-voiced narratives.
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
