![]() ![]() Of Fowles's other novels, Mantissa ( 1982) is a fantasy in which Amnesia and Sex intersect metaphysically as a writer wrestles literally and sometimes erotically with his Muse and A Maggot ( 1985) is sf. ![]() In studies of the fantastic in general, this novel's working title, «The Godgame», has become a shorthand for tales whose outcome is controlled by a god-like figure (see Godgame). In this novel a series of seemingly supernatural contrivances separates the unpleasant protagonist from his love and from any security, causing him to learn something about himself on a mysterious mazelike Island before happiness is allowed to reign rational explanations in the end from the Daedalus-like magus do little to attenuate a sense of magic-realist entrapment. His second novel, The Magus ( 19), especially in the conciser revised version, more powerfully explores the labyrinths of obsession and manipulation underlying, in all of Fowles's work, the rigmaroles and impostures of daylight reality. (1926-2005) UK author who remains perhaps most famous for his first and third novels, The Collector ( 1963) and The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1969). ![]()
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