书名：Clea 劳伦斯达雷尔

作者：Lawrence Durrell

出版社名称：Faber & Faber

出版时间：2020

语种：英语

ISBN：9780571356034

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

一位外籍教师在流亡中度过了多年，反思他与埃及迷人的妻子贾丝廷之间动荡的爱情。回到战时的亚历山大，他发现他的老朋友们的身体、心灵和财富都发生了巨大的变化--而且他从未真正认识的人希望能见到他。他与艺术家Clea的恋情不仅改变了这对恋人，而且永远改变了死者--预示着一个新的开始，正如劳伦斯杜瑞尔这本令人陶醉的杰作的结局。

An expat schoolteacher has spent years in exile reflecting on his turmoiled love affair with Justine, a glamorous Egyptian wife. Returning to wartime Alexandria, he finds that his old friends have suffered dramatic changes of body, mind, and fortune - and someone whom he has never really known wishes to see him. His affair with Clea, a bisexual artist, not only changes the lovers, but transforms the dead, forever - and heralds a new beginning, just as Lawrence Durrell's intoxicating masterpiece ends.

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.