About the book: 1993 / Second edition of the novel with a foreword by the authorJohn Fowles is one of the most outstanding (and deservedly popular) British writers of the 20th century, a modern classic of the main caliber, the author of world-famous bestsellers “The Collector” and “The French Lieutenant’s Mistress.” “The Magus” has long served Fowles as a kind of calling card. In this novel, on a lost Greek island, a mysterious “magician” performs cruel psychological experiments on people, subjecting them to torture by passion and non-existence. The realistic tradition is combined in the book with elements of mysticism and detective fiction. The erotic scenes of the novel are perhaps the best that has been written about carnal love in the second half of the 20th century.