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herself and Darley, but Darley concludes Justine with
"Clea's last letter unanswered" (J, p. 2k$).
As the novel of "the Devil," in Balthazar, Darley
stresses the dark side of the living experience, emphasizing
destruction; quick to be destroyed is the truth of the
story Darley has told in Justine, because in Balthazar, the
second novel of the tetralogy, Darley sends his manuscript
of Justine to Balthazar, a doctor, who replies with a
lengthy critique which corrects Darley*s manuscript in
matters of fact. The most important piece of information
which Balthazar provides for Darley's understanding of
his love affairs is the fact that Justine did not love
Darley at all but instead was using Darley as a screen
for her love affair with Pursewarden, information which
jolts the reader as much as it does Darley, for Pursewarden
was a comparatively unimportant and unromantic character
in Justine. Apart from his new understanding and his
consequent anger at having been used (he calls Justine
"the monster") (B, p. 130), Darley fails to progress in
his love affairs in Balthazar, in which novel in addition
to discussing the unexpected relationship between Justine
and Pursewarden, Darley spends much time considering the
dark side of growth, with an emphasis on sexual perversions
and destructive behavior, and introduces and develops the
character of Narouz, Nessim's brother; this material will
be considered more fully in my third chapter, "Narouz*s Evil."
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Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr. The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet", dissertation, May 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330626/m1/19/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .