Nunquam

The brilliant scientist, Felix Charlock, is summoned from a madhouse by a supremely powerful international corporation. His assignment — to help create an exact, functioning duplicate of lolanthe, the famous movie star, now dead, with whom Julian Merlin, chief of the firm, is deeply obsessed. It is a project born of an arrogance of power, an unbridled scientific compulsion and one man's agonizing impotence, but it is an incredible challenge—to recreate a woman, breathing, thinking, remembering ... loving.

Nunquom carries forward the theme which began with Tunc, the destruction of the individual by the crushing force of modern technology. It is Durrell's most contemporary novel—bawdy, fantastic, satiric—compelling science fiction with the shock of impending fact.