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The Avignon QuintetMonsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx
Format: Paperback
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"The Avignon Quintet ... is an enigmatic and secretive work, a cluster of dark passages and gaudy treasure-filled caves beside the thrusting baroque edifice of his earlier Alexandria Quartet ... his art is undiminished in scale, in inventive gusto and fictive extravagance." Patrick Parrinder, London Review of Books.
Avignon and the ancient kingdom of Provence have taken the place of Alexandria and the easter Mediterranean, though significant episodes in the quincunx are set in the Egyptian desert, Venice, Paris, Vienna and Geneva. In Constance, in particular, there is a memorable picture of life in southern France under the Nazis.
Durrell's prime themes of 'fiction' and 'reality' are shuffled and intercut with those of human identity and sexuality, Freud, the cult of the Gnostics, the heresy of the Templars, and other extraordinary and bizarre matters -- all rendered with great ingenuity and ribald humour by a supreme descriptive writer, poet and novelist.
Author: Lawrence Durrell (all their books in stock)
Genre: Modern fiction
Format: Paperback
Published: 1992
Pages: 1383
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
ISBN: 9780571163090
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Our conditions mean the following:
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- Very Good - only minor imperfections such as minor scuffs to edge or cover or a price written in pencil or shop sticker.
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