Young teacher Nicholas Urfe flees from the grayness of life and dangerous love to the island of Phraxos in Greece. There he falls under the influence of the mysterious millionaire Maurice Conchis. The "Magus" begins a performance. At dinner, the...
ghost of his deceased fiancée appears. A satyr rushes by, chasing a nymph... Nicholas Urfe, like Orpheus, must descend into Hell, overcome temptations, and save his Eurydice. The boundaries between actors and spectators, stage and reality blur. What is this? A performance, a psychological experiment, or a refined torture? The whole truth will be revealed to those who reach the very end. John Fowles is a writer who became a classic during his lifetime. In his youth, he taught English on the Greek island of Spetses. It was there that the plot of the mystification novel "The God Game" originated, which entered the history of world literature under the title "The Magus".
Young teacher Nicholas Urfe flees from the grayness of life and dangerous love to the island of Phraxos in Greece. There he falls under the influence of the mysterious millionaire Maurice Conchis. The "Magus" begins a performance. At dinner, the ghost of his deceased fiancée appears. A satyr rushes by, chasing a nymph... Nicholas Urfe, like Orpheus, must descend into Hell, overcome temptations, and save his Eurydice. The boundaries between actors and spectators, stage and reality blur. What is this? A performance, a psychological experiment, or a refined torture? The whole truth will be revealed to those who reach the very end.
John Fowles is a writer who became a classic during his lifetime. In his youth, he taught English on the Greek island of Spetses. It was there that the plot of the mystification novel "The God Game" originated, which entered the history of world literature under the title "The Magus".
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