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JUSTINE (SIGNED); An Investigation of Modern Love
by Durrell, Lawrence
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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. David Palladini. Octavo, 6 x 8.75 in., pp. 243, Signed by author on front flyleaf, protected by tissue guard. This Franklin Library Limited edition is bound in light brown, genuine leather with elegant 22-karat gold and turquise accents. Gilt lettering on classic hubbed spines of four raised bands dividing five panels. All edges gilt to protect against dust and moisture. Red marbled endpapers, and sewn-in silk ribbon book mark. Pages are thread-sewn for strength and durability, have long-lasting, acid-neutral, archival quality paper, and a handsome, readable typeface. Clean, tight, bright.
Frontispiece by Kinuka Craft. Includes original "Notes from the Editors" from The Franklin Library. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. From Wikipedia:
"The Alexandria Quartet (of which Justine is the first) 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 the Second World War. 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), Mount Olive (1958), and Clea (1960). In a 1959 Paris Review interview, 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 number 70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."
Frontispiece by Kinuka Craft. Includes original "Notes from the Editors" from The Franklin Library. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. From Wikipedia:
"The Alexandria Quartet (of which Justine is the first) 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 the Second World War. 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), Mount Olive (1958), and Clea (1960). In a 1959 Paris Review interview, 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 number 70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."
Synopsis
The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel, their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to know—and possess—the other. Since its publication in 1957, Justine has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics alike.
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- Title
- JUSTINE (SIGNED); An Investigation of Modern Love
- Author
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Illustrator
- David Palladini
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
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- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1980
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