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''The Alexandria Quartet'' is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria (Egypt), before and during World War II. The fourth book is set six years later. As Durrell explains in his preface to ''Balthazar'', the four novels are an exploration of relativity and the notions of continuum and subject–object relation, with modern love as the theme. The ''Quartet's'' first three books offer the same sequence of events through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives of a single set of events. The fourth book shows change over time. The four novels are: : * ''Justine'' (1957) : * ''Balthazar'' (1958) : * ''Mountolive'' (1958) : * ''Clea'' (1960) In a 1959 ''Paris Review'' interview,〔 pp. 26–27.〕 Durrell described the ideas behind the ''Quartet'' in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ''The Alexandria Quartet'' #70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ==Footnotes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Alexandria Quartet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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