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Reckoning With Sentimental Habits by Way of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet

By Matt Jakubowski ⋅ December 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
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It helped in writing this piece that my disappointment with Durrell on a moral level paralleled his narrator’s disillusionment with romantic love. It helped because it reminded me in double-barrel fashion that literary hero worship can be dangerous.

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