Instead of being grateful that there actually used to be a time when people/writers-could really write and form real sentences and not the gibberish/nonsense that passes for language these days.Īnd when authors/artists also had the freedom to write and express themselves without the fear of reprisals and censure, which is now the practice/order of the day. There were those that simply complained about the wordy articulate creative/style of the fluid syntax-like that was a crime in itself. Now, like every great work of literature it will always have its detractors and people that will just not get or understand the all-together truly profound meaning of said novel. But by the time I was about a quarter in-I just knew that this was going to be a very good read indeed! It started off very slow and deliberate, building up as it went along. In my estimation, this is one of the best books that I’ve ever read! It superseded and defied any and all expectations that I might have had regarding the story itself. The Magus is a novel that has all the rare qualities/motifs of the best in the world that the classical literary tradition could possibly offer (i.e., Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Joyce, and so on). Needless to say, I was pleasingly astonished by what I had soon discovered. Yes, I consider myself a writer and I can truly admire this author’s poetic vision for all its worth.

And only after the first draft (and many rewrites/edits) of my own very similar esoteric novel/story had already been completed/finished by 2019. I began to read John Fowles’ masterful tale in earnest just recently in 2021.

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