The Alexandria Quartet | Characters
The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, 1957, Balthazar, 1958, Mountolive, 1958, Clea, 1960) presents a procession of characters as rich and diverse as any work of twentieth-century fiction. At first glance, they all seem terribly exotic, in part because of their Alexandrian setting, which seems to shape character in mysterious ways. Then readers realize that they have met most of these characters before, in life and in literature, and they are quite conventional: diplomats and politicians whose lives are lived at the center of power and who yet remain curiously...
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