Lawrence Durrell has emerged as one of the prominent English novelists of Post Modern Age. He has been acclaimed by the noted critics as a great contemporary novelist, a successor to James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. His literary masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet, a collection of the novels Jistine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea, has been widely acclaimed for its thematic richness and artistic perfection. His popularity as a novelist solely rests on this collection. He wrote his first novel The Black Book before the Second World War. Thereafter, novel after novel followed from his pen in quick succession till 1985. His later novels include Tune, The Dark Labyrinth, Nonguom, Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx. The book is an attempt to highlight the political, economic and socio-cultural dimensions of his fiction. Since not a single full length study on the widely acclaimed work of this eminent contemporary novelist is available in India, the book will hopefully prove to be of great use to the students, researchers and teachers of English Literature.
