![]() ![]() Indeed, The Magus is a maze, a dark door. Love story as tempestuous and compellingly beautiful as love between two human beings can be. This is not to say that The Magus is a simple book. As the elaborate tableaux of The Magus unfold, from fin de siecle propriety to wartime atrocity, from modern bohemian London to the lovely yet somehow sinister Greek island of Phraxos, Fowles never loses sight of the artist's prime responsibility to delight as he sheds light, to give pleasure as he sounds the well of reality for its darker meanings. ![]() The Magus (which may be translated Magician or Juggler) is remarkable not only for the way in which it enlarges and develops the underlying themes of The Collector it is in itself a towering accomplishment of entertainment, a virtuoso feat of storytelling. Even so powerful a first novel as The Collector does not prepare the reader for the manifold, compulsive fascination of John Fowles's eagerly awaited second novel, The Magus. ![]()
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