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...BALTHAZAR, by Lawrence Durrell. The second volume of a projected tetralogy extends the large hint given by last year's Justine: that Anglo-Irish Author Durrell writes just about the most original prose fiction to be found today. Balthazar revisits the scene-Alexandria-and the characters of Justine, catches them again in a blaze of passion, decadence and self-doubt that adds a new dimension of truth to the many faces of love...
...later and elected Clement VII. Nations took sides, positions became entrenched, no one knew who was rightful Pope. To break the deadlock, cardinals from both camps convened on their own (hence invalidly) in 1409, "deposed" both Popes and elected a third, who died within a year, was succeeded by Balthazar Cardinal Cossa, who called himself John XXIII. Neither "deposed" Pope recognized the new one. Four years later, the Council of Constance met, made itself valid by having Urban's successor, Gregory XII, convene it and immediately abdicate. Thereupon the council deposed the other two Popes and started things...
...perhaps the most exhaustive study of love since Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. In the first volume, Justine (TIME, Aug. 26, 1957), Author Durrell, 46, brilliantly evoked the city of Alexandria, which has festered for 2,000 years between the sun-sparkling Mediterranean and the Egyptian desert. Balthazar covers the same terrain and time span as the first. It is as if the reader were making a return train journey through a landscape he had just crossed-only now he is sitting on the opposite side of the car and everything looks different...
Space & Time. In Justine, Narrator Darley drew what he thought were final conclusions from his own experience: he supplied answers as he saw them to Justine's nymphomania, Nessim's seeming complaisance and incipient madness, Melissa's tortured love. In Balthazar, an all-seeing, cabalistic doctor gives a rude shake to this picture and, as in a kaleidoscope, all the parts fall into radically changed patterns. Darley learns that Justine only pretended to love him, that he was used as a decoy to conceal her passion...
...Proust used the theories of Philosopher (and Nobel Prizewinner) Henri Bergson in his titanic effort to write the definitive novel of time and memory, so Durrell seeks to base his four-decker work on Einstein's space-time continuum. Justine, Balthazar, and the projected third book, Mountolive, will "interlap, interweave, in a purely spatial relation. Time is stayed. The fourth part alone will represent time and be a true sequel...