This is the second of four novels that have become known as "The Alexandria Quartet." But though it deals with many of the same characters and situations as its predecessor, JUSTINE, the reader sees them in a subtly altered light, through different eyes and within a slightly altered context of time. It is Balthazar who is mainly responsible for this. For when Darley, the narrator and lover of Justine, submits what he has written about her, the doctor and dabbler in psychology furnishes him with additional information, even deeper insights into the true character of this most sensual, vibrantly alive but very complex woman...
