“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
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Mezcla de narración gótica, thriller, historia iniciática, relato erótico y filosófico, asistimos a la ±educación sentimental del joven Nicholas, que abandona Londres para establecerse en una remota isla griega. Allí conoce a un excéntrico millonario, ±el Mago, que lo introduce en las fronteras movedizas de la realidad y el sueño ... ¿Cuál es el fin de estas experiencias truculentas? ¿Cómo saber su signifcado, el grado de seriedad científica, de intuición metafísica, de pura superchería? Y sobre todo, se pregunta Nicholas angustiado, ¿quién es realmente Conchis, el Mago? ¿Un ser dotado de poderes sobrenaturales? ¿Un déspota caprichoso qeu escenifiva sus propios fantasmas para turbar las sensibilidades frágiles? ¿Un psiquiatra que, en aras de la ciencia, prosigue el estudio de un caso? Un circuito recurrente y emblemático: de la apariencia a la sospecha y al desenmascaramiento de esta apariencia como mentira, y a la sospecha de esa nueva apariencia: la última máscara jamás se quita.
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John Fowles
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“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
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“Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.”
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“She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?' 'I don't expect attractive men necessarily to...”
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“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who k...”
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“Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.”
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“I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation....”
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“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not ficti...”
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“Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.”
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