Volume four in the series known collectively as The Alexandria Quartet, this novel is once again related from the first-person point of view of Darley, the English writer who narrated the first and second volumes, Justine and Balthazar, respectively. The… Read More ›
The story is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria just before World War II, a crossroads of the ancient and the new, simultaneously primitive and cosmopolitan. The main characters include the Irish teacher and writer Darley, who narrates the… Read More ›
After a few minutes of reading stories that are not selfreflexive, readers sometimes forget what they are doing and feel transported into the world of the book. Considering this experience naïve, authors of self-reflexive fictions thwart it by such devices… Read More ›
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