Balthazar (novel)

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Balthazar

First UK edition
Author	Lawrence Durrell
Language	English
Series	The Alexandria Quartet
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Publication date	1958
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Paperback and Hardback)
Preceded by	Justine
Followed by	Mountolive

Balthazar, published in 1958, is the second volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, around World War II, the four novels tell essentially the same story from different points of view and come to a conclusion in Clea. Balthazar is the first novel in the series that presents a competing narrator, Balthazar, who writes back to the narrating Darley in his "great interlinear".