The Magus
The English writer John Fowles graduated from Oxford University and taught English literature for many years in France and Greece. His first novel, The Collector, received immediate international acclaim. A dozen more novels followed, including one of the masterpieces of modern literature, The Magus.
Like the author, the hero of The Magus, Nicholas, goes to teach English at a school on a Greek island. There he meets Conchis, the mysterious magus, thanks to whose seemingly supernatural abilities Nicholas becomes the subject of strange experiments on the border between dream and reality. Seduced by two twin sisters, he tries to guess who is behind it all and what is the purpose of this seemingly pre-arranged production, mentally going back into the past, looking at himself and the people around him, pondering all sorts of aesthetic, erotic, metaphysical questions. A novel of mystery, a work of metaphysics, a work on the border between modernism and postmodernism, The Magus is ranked among the hundred best works of 20th century English literature.
John Fowles
John Fowles (1926–2005) was educated at Oxford and subsequently lectured in English at universities in Greece and the UK. The success of his first novel, The Collector, published in 1963, allowed him to devote all his time to writing. His books include the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, and Daniel Martin.
Fowles spent the last decades of his life on the southern coast of England in the small harbor town of Lyme Regis.
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