The Magus by John Fowles Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Magus
Book Review: Pack your bags; you're going to Greece!
Summary: 5 Stars
If ever a dream submitted to an author's will, it has happened in "The Magus". John Fowles, with a superb command of place and of time, imbeds stories-within-stories amid a complicated plot, and the result is breath- taking. If ever one hears one's self stumbling to define "magic realism", think of the stars over Phraxos, think of ouzo and the caice that will not return for a fortnight, and then do not insist on definition. "The Magus" is full of boundless energy woven in a superior narrative.Book Review: It made me re-evaluate my concept of reality.
Summary: 5 Stars
Are you ready to have every ounce of trust in perception dashed? Are you ready to question everything you encounter in daily life? Are you ready to throw a book across the room out of frustration? This book is for you! Read it, and never think the same again.Book Review: A Treat
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a great novel about reality and how we percieve it. The hero is invited to participate in an experiment and cannot the resist the tempation. He is drawn into a maelstrom of strange events and after a while he does not know the difference between the reality and the experiment. The story goes to show how fragile our concept of reality really is. And is written by a truly great author. A treatBook Review: Fowles' tour de force
Summary: 5 Stars
A dense and richly textured work. Filled with archetypes and page turning surprises. Excellent character developmentBook Review: A Novelist's Study of the Tarot
Summary: 4 Stars
John Fowles's early novel was rewritten later in his career.
Each chapter of this novel is connected to one of the cards
of the Tarot. Fowles rewrote the novel and published it after
he had had greater success with French Lt. Woman and similar
novels.
Made into a rather strange film, the Magus is worth a study
both by occultists and students of literature. The fact that
the author rewrote the book later in his career, gives an idea
of the change in vision of one of the Better Authors of Modern
English Literature.