Abstract
Reality as presented in the Alexandria Quartet of Laurence Durrell, is relative; and as such, the Quartet, using the form of the relativity proposition, translates the scientific principles of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity into truly human relationships. Durrell proposes to offer in the Quartet the basic unities, which he finds lacking in modern literature. These unities, he believes, can be arrived at by studying man in space-time, thus adding a fourth dimensional aspect to the usual spacial dimensions. In the Quartet, then, he emphasizes two aspects of the relativity proposition, its attitude toward time and the subject-object relationship.