5/21/2023 0 Comments The Ebony Tower by John Fowles![]() ![]() The novella, “The Ebony Tower” is the longest by far in this collection, but none of the stories is short. He also says that he had originally intended his novel The Magus to be a rendering of the Alain-Fournier novel Le Grand Meaulnes, but that scholars and critics disagreed with him that he had done so. In a lot of ways they are, but also in a lot of ways they are literally just the same story that John Fowles tells in each of his books, which you really only get when you’re three or four books into his career. ![]() Regardless, one of the things that emerges from that intro, which is the second story in the collection is that John Fowles intended the full collection to be called “Variations” and for the stories to be thematically connected. It’s actually a novella, three stories, and a translation of one of the lays of Marie de France, but with a sizeable translator’s note that kind of functions a little like a story intro. This is a collection of stories and one novella. “David arrived at Coëtminais the afternoon after the one he had landed at Cherbourg and driven down to Avranches, where he had spent the intervening Tuesday night. ![]()
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