"The Alexandria Group" of four is an arrangement of four books distributed somewhere in the range of 1957 and 1960 by English author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Egypt previously and amid World War II, every one of the initial three books portrays a similar succession of occasions from another viewpoint. The fourth book is an incomplete review on the occasions of the initial three books, set in wartime six years after the fact. The story is revolved around a man named L.G. Darley, who watches his companionships and sentimental associations in Alexandria, perceptions supplemented and tested at focuses by different characters. The focal inquiry of The Alexandria Group of four is the likelihood of the continuance of affection given the shaky and unforeseen connection between a given subject and protest after some time.
The primary novel in the quadruplicate, Justine, is a purposely secretive voyage through the ongoing past of an English educator and trying essayist, his name uncovered in the later books as Darley. Darley has as of late fled from Egypt to an island of Greece in the Aegean Ocean, alongside the offspring of his expired sweetheart Melissa. On the island, he ponders his pre-war recollections of Alexandria in Egypt, a fairly forsaken port city he romanticizes over in view of an undertaking that occurred there. The undertaking was among him and a lady named Justine, and was combined with a fellowship with numerous Egyptians and exiles united fully expecting World War II. He meets such characters as his lewd flat mate Pombal; a broker named Nessim who is Justine's actual spouse; a writer named Pursewarden who at last carries out suicide; a gay specialist named Balthazar; and an elderly policeman Scobie, who moonlights as a crossdresser and attaches with English mariners, and is eventually executed in a loathe wrongdoing.
After expanded portrayals of every one of his associates back in Egypt, Darley persuades out a tale about his issue with Justine. He meets her when she goes to his address on the old urban Alexandrian writer Cavafy, and they start a disastrous relationship. It is clear Nessim knows about the undertaking, yet they continue in spite of the up and coming kickback. They go to a duck chase at one of Nessim's homes; unexpectedly, the unavoidable homicide is that of a man named Capodistria, who assaulted Justine as a youngster and set off her nymphomania. Justine escapes to Palestine.
Balthazar, the second novel, is partially a test to Darley's account in the principal volume. It is described by Balthazar, who has perused Darley's original copy (the substance of Justine) and tracks him down in the Cyclades to debate his announcements. Here, the logical governmental issues of the story are explained, and Darley is recounted a trick against the English including Nessim's family, especially his sibling Narouz, that is occurring in Egypt and Palestine. Darley is stunned to discover that Justine's association with him was a stratagem to conceal another association with the author Pursewarden.
Scobie's story reaches an end when he is killed by English mariners in an abhor wrongdoing against his lasciviousness and sexual character. A painter named Clea referenced quickly in Justine is uncovered to have a dear kinship with Darley and is careful about Narouz's craving for her. Justine learns of a disguise, where her companion Toto de Brunel is cut; it is uncovered that he is wearing her ring. Balthazar finishes up the volume by remarking insightfully that every reality or occasion in life is predicated by large numbers of puzzling inspirations.
Mountolive, the third volume, is told in the third individual, inferring it is the "genuine" viewpoint on the story. It portrays David Mountolive's initial life in Egypt and kinship with Nessim's family. A juvenile man, Mountolive utilizes Leila as his dream, and they compare after an undertaking as he progresses his political profession. In Egypt, Mountolive, now a Minister, contracts Pursewarden as his associate, disregarding admonitions that Pursewarden is declining to recognize Nessim's enemy of English thoughts. Pursewarden submits suicide and Mountolive scrambles to act against his companions and repudiate his faithfulness. Leila intercedes to encourage her family, yet Mountolive is disturbed by her. Nessim and Justine now live in neediness and the Egyptian government brutalizes Narouz. The volume closes with Nessim sitting alongside his killed sibling's box, considering his misinformed aspirations.
Clea, the last volume, apparently illuminates the occasions of the initial three. Darley comes back to Alexandria as the war nears its end, seeing his companions have been met with terrible destinies. He never again has interests for his previous darlings. Nessim is currently a rescue vehicle driver. Clea, in any case, develops well, and Darley experiences passionate feelings for her. Balthazar absurdly becomes hopelessly enamored with a youthful performing artist and his companions endeavor to settle his homosexuality. Darley finds Pursewarden's compositions and finds that he has been alluded to as "Sibling Ass." In the last scene of the novel, Darley salvages Clea from suffocating at a swimming gathering when Balthazar coincidentally shoots a spear at her hand, sticking her to a submerged ship. Clea's hand is supplanted with a mechanical hand. Darley at long last remarks that his attention to the multifaceted nature of relativity increased through these numerous points of view has designed him into a craftsman.
The Alexandria Group of four, in molding discrete volumes for different viewpoints on a similar account, approves a conviction of Durrell's that there exists no "right" story or point of view on history or wonders. Adroitly acquiring from Einstein's hypothesis of relativity which was getting to be promoted at the time, the quadruplicate is in this manner an examination of the fundamental change one must make from an absolutist comprehension of truth and history to a relativistic one.
