Balthazar

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 304 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571356058

Published:6 May 2021

Weight:258g

Dimensions:132 x 197 x 22 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

当世界大战的威胁笼罩着亚历山大城时，一位流亡的英裔爱尔兰学校教师解开了他对两个女人的迷恋。梅丽莎，一个脆弱的舞者，和贾丝廷，一个迷人的已婚埃及女人。

通过与医生和神秘主义者巴尔萨扎的谈话，这些错综复杂的爱情事务被投射到不祥的、险恶的新光中，因为他的私人癖好与一个神秘的谋杀阴谋纠缠在一起......

作为二十世纪最伟大的杰作之一，劳伦斯·杜瑞尔在《亚历山大四重奏》中的“现代爱情调查”让世界为之振奋。1958年，在轰动一时的《贾丝廷》之后一年，万花筒式的《巴萨泽》在今天也同样熠熠生辉。

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by Alaa Al Aswany (bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building).

Every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position ...

As the threat of world war looms over the city of Alexandria, an exiled Anglo-Irish schoolteacher unravels his erotic obsession with two women: Melissa, a fragile dancer, and Justine, a glamorous married Egyptian woman.

Through conversations with Balthazar, a doctor and mystic, these intricate love affairs are cast in an ominous, sinister new light, as his private fixations become entangled with a mysterious murder plot ...

One of the twentieth century's greatest masterpieces, rich in political and sexual intrigue, Lawrence Durrell's 'investigation of modern love' in the Alexandria Quartet set the world alight. Published in 1958, a year after the sensational Justine, the kaleidoscopic Balthazar burns just as brightly today.

'Legendary ... Casts a spell ... A fine storyteller. Reader, watch out!' Jan Morris, Guardian

'A brave and brazen work ... Lush and grandiose.' Independent

'One of the very best novelists of our time ... [such] beauty.' New York Times Book Review

VOLUME TWO OF LAWRENCE DURRELL'S ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

作者简介

劳伦斯·杜瑞尔1912年出生于英属印度的贾朗达尔，是一位广受好评和喜爱的小说家、诗人、幽默大师和旅行作家，以《亚历山大四重奏》小说而闻名，被《现代图书馆》列为二十世纪英国文学最伟大的作品之一。杜瑞尔从小就是一位充满激情和执着的作家，他多产的作品还包括开创性的《阿维尼翁五重奏》，其第一部小说《先生》（1974年）获得了詹姆斯-泰特-布莱克纪念奖，第三部小说《康斯坦丝》（1982年）获得了布克奖的提名。他还撰写了著名的旅行回忆录《塞浦路斯的苦涩柠檬》（1957），该书获得了达夫·库珀奖。杜瑞尔与作家亨利·米勒通信45年，米勒影响了他的许多早期作品，包括一部具有挑衅性和争议性的小说《黑书》（1938年）。杜瑞尔于1990年在法国去世。

Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912 to Indian-born British colonials, Lawrence Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. A passionate and dedicated writer from an early age, Durrell’s prolific career also included the groundbreaking Avignon Quintet, whose first novel, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and whose third novel, Constance (1982), was nominated for the Booker Prize. He also penned the celebrated travel memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. Durrell corresponded with author Henry Miller for forty-five years, and Miller influenced much of his early work, including a provocative and controversial novel, The Black Book (1938). Durrell died in France in 1990.