Literature
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908.
In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life.
Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism.
Maugham, wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley.
The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.
There are five characters important on this book.
Four of them lead the plot, in 4 different views:
Susie, a Parisian girl in love with Art, but especially for Arthur;
Arthur the Doctor, completely rational, sceptic in everything and related with everything mystic or supernatural, in love, not with Susie but with Margaret;
Margaret, tutored by Arthur, spending a period in Paris with Susie, and with her marriage marked with Arthur;
and Porhoët, another doctor, had lived in Egypt, with vast knowledge in the occult.
And there is Oliver Haddo, the magician, a strange man that dominates the arts most frightening's, but at the same time captivating and stunning.
A certain black side, or if we want, a grey side of the occult, gains a place more intense in the text as we read it.
The Magician (1908)
W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908.
In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life.
Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism.
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| Aleister Crowley |
Maugham, wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley.
The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.
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| Somerset Maugham |
There are five characters important on this book.
Four of them lead the plot, in 4 different views:
Susie, a Parisian girl in love with Art, but especially for Arthur;
Arthur the Doctor, completely rational, sceptic in everything and related with everything mystic or supernatural, in love, not with Susie but with Margaret;
Margaret, tutored by Arthur, spending a period in Paris with Susie, and with her marriage marked with Arthur;
and Porhoët, another doctor, had lived in Egypt, with vast knowledge in the occult.
And there is Oliver Haddo, the magician, a strange man that dominates the arts most frightening's, but at the same time captivating and stunning.
A certain black side, or if we want, a grey side of the occult, gains a place more intense in the text as we read it.
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| Old London |
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