Item #85453 JUSTINE (SIGNED); An Investigation of Modern Love. Lawrence Durrell.
JUSTINE (SIGNED); An Investigation of Modern Love
JUSTINE (SIGNED); An Investigation of Modern Love
JUSTINE (SIGNED); An Investigation of Modern Love

JUSTINE (SIGNED); An Investigation of Modern Love

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. David Palladini. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. 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. Fine. Item #85453

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."

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