![]() The romance takes place in an overwhelmingly imagined and powerfully evocative Greece of god given landscapes and glorious triumphs in all the arts. They meet, fall in love, part, and may perhaps come together again. The story (I feel a little tentative in using the word ‘plot’ in connection with the book, as will become clear) is a romance between a maladjusted poet/teacher Nicholas Urfe, and an Australian air hostess Alison Kelly. For me, The Magus stands apart from everything else he wrote, even from most other fiction.Īt first consideration this is a surprising opinion, at least it surprised me. ![]() Fowles became the doyen of academic literary criticism, and made a lot of money as well. ![]() ![]() John Fowles (1926-2005) was an English novelist fortunate enough to sell the screen rights of his first three novels: The Collector (book 1963, film 1965) The Magus (book 1966 and again 1977, film 1968) and The French Lieutenant’s Woman (book 1969, film 1981). ![]()
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