Balthazar
novel by Durrell
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Balthazar is the second novel in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet. Published in 1958, it is set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The novel reinterprets events from the first book, Justine, from a philosophical and intellectual perspective, offering a different viewpoint on the narrative. The Alexandria Quartet as a whole explores the relativity of truth through its subjective narrative structure and suggests that love, art, and sexual experience are paths to understanding ultimate reality.12
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