5/24/2023 0 Comments John fowles's the magus![]() ![]() Fowles has done-triumphantly-in "The Magus." He plumbs the deeper moral and psychological themes of "The Collector" with a vengeance but the brittle scaffolding of that novel ![]() Occasionally a second-novel author confounds his criticsĪnd junks the formula. For all this, however, "The Collector" was highly praised and widely read, it was in many ways an easy book to like, a "natural,"Īnd its ostensible subject matter, sexual psychosis, was as fashionably ghoulish as it was adroitly handled.Īfter a first-novel success of this kind, critics tend to lie in ambush for an author's second effort on the assumption (too often true) that he will attempt to repeat a now shop-worn formula. Making us too aware of, too concerned for, Mr. This bent the novel's rigging out of shape-and undermined much of its dramatic urgency by But these were presented in parallel narrations that had then to be forced toward each other to meet and become one. The root of the tale's horror lay not in the plot situation of the novel-a madman kidnaps a girl and holds her prisoner in his basement-but in the eventual merging of the two viewpoints, the villain'sĪnd the victim's. Ohn Fowles's first novel, "The Collector," was a horror tale brightened by intelligence and insight and dulled by an intellectually JanuPlayers of the Godgame By ELIOT FREMONT-SMITH ![]()
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