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The abject produces an effect of horror, specifically one that is uncanny in its disruption of the familiar, threatening the certainty of the self, and creating a sense of dread and anxiety. New York: Columbia University Press), will be central to my exploration of Durrell's Alexandria as an urban Gothic space, one that is at once menacing and inviting. In addition, the concept of abjection, detailed by Julia Kristeva in her work 'Powers of Horror' (1982. I will examine how urban Gothic themes such as a sense of claustrophobic enclosure, the active agency of the city, and the haunting return of the past are significant to the representation of Durrell's Alexandria. The English Academy Review (ISSN 1753-5360)Īlthough the city in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet has received a great deal of scholarly attention as an urban space and place, there has been limited engagement with the Gothic tropes located in Durrell's representation of the city. The urban Gothic City in Lawrence Durrell's 'The Alexandria Quartet' In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Alexandria Quartet number 70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Mountolive tells a story minus interpretation, and Clea reveals Darley’s healing, and coming to love another woman. Balthazar reinterprets the romantic perspective he placed on the affair and its aftermath in Justine, in more philosophical and intellectual terms. In Justine, Darley attempts to recover from and put into perspective his recently ended affair with a woman. Darley is the primary observer of the events in the lives of those he loves and/or knows. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. The first three novels, Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive, use three varied viewpoints to relate the same series of events in Alexandria before World War II. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. Lawrence Durrell’s series of four classic novels is set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s.