Constance io las prácticas solitarias (III)

by Durrell, Lawrence; Fibla, Jordi

• ISBN13: 9788435010344
• ISBN10: 8435010341
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-01-01
• Publisher: Edhasa

Summary

Set in the period between the Nazi invasion of Poland and the Allied landing in Normandy, in this novel Durrell proposes an amazing narrative adventure that leads us to rediscover the group of young people who spent a momentous summer in the castle of Verfeuille de Monsieur, in Avignon, starring Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness and Livia or buried alive. While Constance is working for the Red Cross as a psychiatrist in Geneva, her husband Sam in the desert in Egypt and her sister Livia works for the Nazis, the encounter with the Egyptian Affad will lead to Constance launching into an absorbing relationship in the that eroticism and philosophy find a strange meeting point.

Author Biography

Lawrence Durrell first made his name as a poet and novelist in the 1930s and had his first major critical success with The Black Book. However, it is The Alexandria Quartet, the impressive tetralogy composed by Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea, the work that makes it a classic of our time, due largely to its exploration of the possibilities of narrative language and that provoked enthusiastic comparisons of the author with Proust and Faulkner. Like much of his narrative, it comes from his personal experience as a diplomat in Greece, Yugoslavia, Cyprus and Egypt and is characterized by formal experimentation in the treatment of time and space.