Abailart's review
The Magus
by John Fowles
Abailart's review
The Magus by John Fowles
Abailart's review
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I read the first edition of the book when I was 16. It arrived unordered from a book club. At the time I was also just starting on Freud and the English romantic poets. The novel was my first book that changes your life mindblower. Cutting across the surging hormones of my adolescent fever, it brought evrything I felt into a magical frame. For the first time I knew the imaginative power of metaphor. I was also studying the Tempest at the time, and Prospero's/Shakespeare's valediction. The island of literature had become my home.
Then last year I read it again, the author's edited version with his marvellous comments on its and his history. Indeed, it is as he says a flawed work, and adolescent work that seizes the eternal adoelscent impulse. I love it still.
Then last year I read it again, the author's edited version with his marvellous comments on its and his history. Indeed, it is as he says a flawed work, and adolescent work that seizes the eternal adoelscent impulse. I love it still.
