THE ARTS AND (ARTISTIC) CREATION IN LAWRENCE DURRELL’S THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
THE ARTS AND (ARTISTIC) CREATION IN LAWRENCE DURRELL’S THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the world of arts as presented by Lawrence Durrell in his novel The Alexandria Quartet. On the one hand, we shall focus on the art of writing, examining the various figures of writers that appear in the novel (Darley, Pursewarden, Arnauti), their ideas and the way in which their works complete and respond to one another. On the other hand, we shall analyse Durrell’s exploration of the art of painting, which seems to be more utilitarian than artistic, being put at the service of medicine. We shall also see that, as the writer Darley and the painter Clea become a couple, their arts seem to merge into each other and they are on the point of moving from the city of books (Alexandria) to that of arts (Paris).

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