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Justine (El Cuarteto de Alejandría, #1) - Lawrence Durrell
Justine (El Cuarteto de Alejandría, #1)
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 8435007170
Pages no: 321
Edition language: Spanish
Series: Alexandria Quartet (#1)
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Reading For The Heck Of It
Reading For The Heck Of It rated it
0.0 Yuck
I made it to part 2...and did not finish it. Too pretentious and the way the women were characterized was deplorable. No thank you. SO disappointed.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0
Dedication: To EVE these memorials of her native cityOpening: The sea is high today, with a thrilling flush of wind. In the midst of winter you can feel the inventions of spring.Beautiful writing going on here. P.21 phthsic definition: 1. Variant of phthisis.2. Archaic Any illness of the lungs or th...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it
2.0 Justine
Concise Summary:The book is difficult. Words such as immoral sophistry and highbrow drivel come to mind. The last part induced me to raise the rating from one to two stars. In this part Lawrence Durrell switches from excessive philosophizing to a resolution to the "characters" egotistical behavior. ...
AC
AC rated it
I will need to reread this again, perhaps, if I am smart, after I finish the fourth volume...
audreyhawkins
audreyhawkins rated it
Durell's _Justine_ is well written, and I like his central conceit of a portrait of a person as the portrait of the landscape. The narrator looks back on his relationship with Justine and the people in her orbit, jumping around chronologically. It reminds me of a cubist portrait, all happening at on...
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