Sara Martín Alegre P08/04540/02135

C.�P.�Snow
(
Strangers and Brothers
, 1940-70, 11
volumes), 
Olivia�Manning
(
The Balkan Trilogy
, 1960-62), 
Paul�Scott
(
The Raj
Quartet
, 1966-75, 4 volumes) and 
Lawrence�Durrell
to narrate contemporary
life.
Durrell's 
Alexandria�Quartet
(
Justine
, 1957; 
Balthazar
, 1958; 
Mountolive
, 1959;
and 
Clea
, 1960) and his 
Avinyon�Quintet
(1974-85) question the very idea of
the chronicle by returning repeatedly to the same events, which are narrated
in each volume from the point of view of a different character.
Reality
, Durrell suggests, cannot be apprehended from a single point of
view and is necessarily mediated by the consciousness through which
it is filtered –a point that had already been made by the Modernists.
As Durrell's work shows, the 
experimentalism
derived from Modernism
found a new, if clearly minority, vein in the novel of the late 1950s, especially
in the novels of 
Samuel�Beckett
and 
Nigel�Dennis
.
Experimentalism greatly expanded in the 1960s and 1970s without, however,
displacing the work of 
realists
such as 
Graham� Greene
from its position
of pre-eminence. At what precise moment the Modernist experiments in
technique became post-modernist is a matter of dispute. Writers such as
Henry� Green
, 
Lawrence� Durrell
and 
Wyndham� Lewis
seem to bridge
the gap between the two periods, whereas others alternate realism with
experimentalism.
Lawrence Durrell (b. 1912).
Anthony�Burgess
's 
The Clockwork Orange
(1962),