5/24/2023 0 Comments The Magus by John Fowles![]() ![]() Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Fowles’ novel is ‘post-modern’ – which I assume means that the works of William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce et al, are taken as read, ie a foundation upon which Fowles builds his epic examination of the validity of the novel in a post holocaust age. ![]() There are histrionics – which by some readers might be considered irritating, but JOHN FOWLES in his novel THE MAGUS has an ability to produce – in this reader anyway – feelings of intense sadness and loss. ![]() ‘By the time I left Oxford I was a dozen girls away from virginity,’ and its 1951 remember! Then there’s Alison who he meets - supposedly - by chance, but soon disposes of to take up a job teaching English in an all-boys school on the Greek island of Phraxos. ‘…There was also a girl I was tired of.’ Twenty-five-year old brigadier’s son, Oxford graduate and recently-orphaned Nicholas Urfe has a nasty addiction to breaking girls' hearts, or so he fancies, in his caddish sort of way. ![]()
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