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...Justine, Balthazar, Mount Olive, and Clea-Durrell...
...assignment of the country's internal security to new, tough Minister of Justice Balthazar Johannes Vorster. 45. Vorster was jailed as a pro-Nazi by Prime Minister Jan Smuts during World War II; until 1952 he opposed the Nationalists for being "too moderate...
Collected Poems, by Lawrence Durrell. The novelist who wrote the impressive Alexandria tetralogy-Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea-makes his appearance as a poet with technical flash and soaring imagery...
Contradictory Truth. In the three earlier books, time stood still as Novelist Durrell sought to prove how any single event can be variously interpreted by different participants. In Justine, Purse-warden's suicide is attributed to acedia, or boredom with life; Balthazar suggests that the suicide was caused by his failure as an artist; in Mountolive, the motive becomes purely political; and now in Clea, it seems established that Pursewarden took his life in an ironic expiation of his incestuous love for his blind sister. Durrell's point: "Truth is what most contradicts itself...
Stony-broke and close to hunger, he trusted his dervish genius to see him through. Sometimes typing "a slab of 10,000 words every two days," Durrell reeled off his tetralogy at an astonishing clip: Justine (about four months), Balthazar (six weeks), Mount olive (two months), Clea (seven weeks). His major defect, he feels, is overwriting, a prose style that is "too juicy...