![]() ![]() ![]() These pulls in opposite directions-a modernist and a postmodernist as it were-can be related to the first and the second edition of the novel. The novel evidences-for many readers frustratingly and irritatingly-a pull in opposite directions between dichotomous philosophical assumptions which manifest as unresolved tensions in the formal structure as well. It seems The Magus is the work in which the transition occurs, a novel poised on the threshold of postmodernism, but still tied in many ways to assumptions of an earlier modern era. According to Brian McHale (2013, 174), Fowles has produced three fully fledged postmodernist works (The French Lieutenant's Woman, Mantissa and A Maggot). With The French Lieutenant's Woman generally accepted as one of the first British works of postmodern fiction, John Fowles must be seen as a key writer linking modernism and postmodernism (McHale 2013, 174). ![]()
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