“In the great quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea. The time Lawrence spent with his family, mother Louisa, siblings Leslie, Margaret Durrell, and Gerald Durrell, on the island of Corfu were the subject of Gerald's memoirs and have been filmed numerous times for TV. Durrell corresponded with author Henry Miller for forty-five years, and Miller influenced much of his early work, including a provocative and controversial novel, The Black Book (1938). He also penned the celebrated travel memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. A passionate and dedicated writer from an early age, Durrell’s prolific career also included the groundbreaking Avignon Quintet, whose first novel, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and whose third novel, Constance (1982), was nominated for the Booker Prize. Themes of the work include coming of age and responsibility for sexual freedom.Lawrence George Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for The Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. Melissa has left a daughter for the narrator to raise. By the end of 'Justine,' Nessim has killed Justine's rapist. The affair between the two affects both Melissa and Nessim it causes them to have an affair also. Durrell injects conflict into the narrative when the narrator and Justine become involved. While speaking at a lecture, the narrator meets Justine, who agrees to introduce him to her husband, Nessim.
With this context in mind, Durrell introduces the narrator he is a teacher. Durrell sets the time frame for the novel as some time leading up to the First World War. In the beginning, it is the narrator who tells the reader that he is raising Melissa's child in Alexandria, Egypt.
He has an affair with Justine however, Justine is married to Nessim. Durrell begins the novel with the unnamed narrator. Lawrence Durrell's novel 'Justine' centers on the narrator's relationship with three other characters and how a relationship with one of them affects his life long-term.
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