Alexandria Quartet

Four parts of the novel-tetralogy "Alexandria Quartet" are not in vain wear the names of their main characters. The reader can look at the same events - the life of Egyptian Alexandria before and during the Second World War - through the eyes of completely different people. The sunset of colonialism, anti -British rebellion, political and private life - phenomena and people become much more understandable when you can see them at different angles. The author himself called a tetralogy an experiment on the study of a continuum and subject-object relationships on the material of modern love. In the first three books: "Justine", "Balthazar" and "Mautolive" - these connections are gradually revealed in all its complexity and confusion, united by time and place. In the fourth book - "Clea" - the author connects the plot lines together and makes it possible to trace the development of relations and fate in time, completing the narrative.
The text of this publication was redesigned by the translator V. Mikhaylin and supplemented by an introductory article and comments