The Magus

John Fowles is one of the most outstanding and popular British writers, a modern classic, the author of "The Collector" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman." "The Magus" serves as a kind of business card for Fowles. In this novel, on a remote Greek island, a mysterious "magus" conducts ruthless psychological experiments on people, torturing them with passion and oblivion. The realistic tradition is combined in the book with elements of mysticism and detective fiction. The erotic scenes may be the best written about carnal love in the second half of the 20th century.