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Sites about The Avignon Quintet
A collection of five interrelated novels: Monsieur (1974), Livia (1978), Constance (1982), Sebastian (1983) and Quinx (1985).
Critical sites about The Avignon Quintet
- Quantum Mechanics and the Shape of Fiction: “Non-Locality” in the Avignon Quincunx
- http://www.altx.com/ebr/w(ebr)/essays/lorenz.html
- This essay explores how “Durrell’s Quincunx, like his Alexandria Quartet, is an attempt to use the findings of contemporary science to overcome the linear bias of his readers, to show that progressive realism lies about the nature of people and events through oversimplification, to force his readers to see the physical and psychical complexity of themselves and the world around them, to see the truly multi-dimensional nature of human experience.”
- Author: Paul H. Lorenz
- From: Weber Studies vol. 14, no. 1, winter 1997
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Other (non-critical) sites about The Avignon Quintet
- Books of the Times: Constance
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/durrell-constance.html
- This review of Constance concludes, “Three books into his Gnostic quincunx, one longs for either amnesia or the stake.”
- Contains: Review
- Author: John Leonard
- From: New York Times December 2, 1982
- Author: John Leonard
- From: New York Times December 2, 1982
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- Dwarves Abouding in Provence
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/durrell-livia.html
- This review of Livia notes that, “If in ‘Livia’ he seems scarcely up to form, much of his writing — not least his jokes and puns, both good and bad — can still give its customary pleasure. “
- Contains: Review
- Author: Alastair Forbes
- From: New York Times April 22, 1979
- Author: Alastair Forbes
- From: New York Times April 22, 1979
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- Links and Winks
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/durrell-quinx.html
- This review of Quinx notes, “Mr. Durrell writes descriptions that can take one’s breath away. Avignon, ancient city of kings and popes, comes gloriously alive.”
- Contains: Review
- Author: Barbara Fisher Williamson
- From: New York Times September 15, 1985
- Author: Barbara Fisher Williamson
- From: New York Times September 15, 1985
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- Review: Monsieur
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/durrell-monsieur.html
- This review of Monsieur concludes that, “it is regrettable that Durrell’s advisers should have allowed him to publish it in its present formlessness. “
- Contains: Review
- Author: J.D. O’Hara
- From: New York Times February 2, 1975
- Author: J.D. O’Hara
- From: New York Times February 2, 1975
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