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《亞歷山大四部曲》是英國作家勞倫斯‧達雷爾創作的四本小說，出版於1957年至1960年間。前三部作品獲得了評論界和商業上的成功，分別從三個視角展現了二戰前及二戰期間發生在埃及亞歷山大的一系列事件和人物。第四部作品則將故事背景設定在六年後。
這部作品於1962年以單行本形式再版，達雷爾藉此機會進行了「多次」修訂。 [1] 1962年的版本代表了他最終的創作構想。
正如達雷爾在《巴爾薩澤》序言中所言，這四部小說探索了相對論、連續體和主客體關係的概念，並以現代愛情為主題。 《亞歷山大四部曲》的前三部作品透過多個視角呈現了相同的事件序列，從而允許從不同的視角看待同一事件。第四部作品則展現了時間的變化。
這四本小說分別是：
《賈斯汀》（1957）
《巴爾薩澤》（1958）
《蒙特利夫》（1958）
《克莉》（1960）。
在1959年接受《巴黎評論》採訪時[2]，達雷爾將《亞歷山大四重奏》背後的思想描述為東西方形上學的融合，其基礎是愛因斯坦對物質宇宙舊觀的顛覆，以及佛洛伊德對穩定人格概念的顛覆，從而產生了一種新的現實概念。
1998年，現代圖書館將《亞歷山大四重奏》列為20世紀百部最佳英語小說榜單中的第70名。
The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War. The fourth book is set six years later.
The work was reissued in one volume in 1962, and Durrell used the occasion to make "numerous" revisions.[1] The 1962 edition represents his final thoughts.
As Durrell explains in his preface to Balthazar, the four novels are an exploration of relativity and the notions of continuum and subject–object relation, with modern love as the theme. The Quartet's first three books offer the same sequence of events through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives of a single set of events. The fourth book shows change over time.
The four novels are:
- Justine (1957)
- Balthazar (1958)
- Mountolive (1958)
- Clea (1960).
In a 1959 Paris Review interview,[2] Durrell described the ideas behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Alexandria Quartet number 70 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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