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Durrell is one of the most important writers that English literature brought to the 20th century, a favorite of literature readers all over the world.
Lawrence Durrell, one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, defines the Alexandria Quartet, consisting of his books Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea, as a "European novel" in terms of its structural features. These four do not reflect a successive process as a novel's fiction. It is shaped by the characters of the same novel expressing the events they experienced in the same time period in different ways, from their own perspectives and according to their own interpretations. Durrell's aim is to emphasize that when perspectives change, the appearances of events and people take on different meanings. This is a very important narrative revolution in contemporary novel art. As a mystery is revealed, it is covered with a new mystery, and the pleasure of reading continues uninterrupted. Although the events and heroes described in the novels are the same, the protagonist of the quartet is the city of Alexandria, where the events take place. Mountolive, the third book of the quartet, investigates the reality of love, which is considered the most important element of life, as in the other three books, and tells the story of love knowing no rules, customs or boundaries.