Among the most brilliant fictional works of the twentieth century, Lawrence Durrell s Alexandria Quartet is at once a culmination of modernist literature and an exploration of the conscious construction of truth and reality. Structured to reflect Einstein s relativity theory, the Alexandria Quartet is an intricate interweaving of linguistic resources. Using M. A. K. Halliday s systemic linguistic theory of text analysis, (Re)constructing Reality probes the inner workings of Durrell s masterpiece to bring us closer to an understanding of how meaning is created. In the...