Contemporary Spanish author José Carlos Somoza’s novel Clara y la penumbra (2001), translated into English as The Art of Murder (2004), is set in the near future and the plot concerns the world of “hyperdramatic” art, where ...

the female character, Justine, in Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria quartet. Adopting a feminist Gothic position, I shall consider how Justine’s portrayal as a femme fatale makes her a vehicle for Durrell’s articulation of ...