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Justine
Book • 1957
Justine is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet.
The novel is set in Alexandria, Egypt, just before World War II and is narrated by an unnamed Irish teacher who recounts his love affair with Justine, a beautiful and mysterious Jewish woman married to a wealthy Egyptian Copt, Nessim.
The city of Alexandria itself is a central character, reflecting the cultural diversity, decay, and complex interactions between its inhabitants.
The story explores themes of love, desire, betrayal, and the search for self-identity, all woven together with poetic and intellectual prose.
The novel is set in Alexandria, Egypt, just before World War II and is narrated by an unnamed Irish teacher who recounts his love affair with Justine, a beautiful and mysterious Jewish woman married to a wealthy Egyptian Copt, Nessim.
The city of Alexandria itself is a central character, reflecting the cultural diversity, decay, and complex interactions between its inhabitants.
The story explores themes of love, desire, betrayal, and the search for self-identity, all woven together with poetic and intellectual prose.
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Tom Holland as a novel that parodies the themes of virtue and vice, with contrasting fates for virtuous and vicious characters.
Tom Holland as a novel that parodies the themes of virtue and vice, with contrasting fates for virtuous and vicious characters.
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Mentioned by Dr. George Grant as the author of "Justine", a novella that explored his sexual fantasies and is considered the starting point of the sexual revolution.
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Sean Fennessey in relation to the film's allusions to a virtuous woman enduring suffering.
Sean Fennessey in relation to the film's allusions to a virtuous woman enduring suffering.
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Mentioned by Nala Aied as the translator of C.P. Cavafy's poem "The City", which appears in his novel Justine.
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