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In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.
- Sales Rank: #1509295 in Books
- Published on: 1985-08
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 6.50" w x 1.25" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 455 pages
Review
"A remarkable and brilliant work of fiction...the imaginative power of the novel is astounding, the technical virtuosity and structural daring equally so" The Times "This altogether admirable novel serves, as all literature should, the forces of subversion. It is a worthy companion to The French Lieutenant's Woman, which does the same thing, but bolder in its experimentation and hence more notable as an artistic achievement" -- Anthony Burgess Observer "Compelling and passionate fiction... Fowles's darting imagination skims across the landscape of two and a half centuries" Times Literary Supplement "Brilliant and compelling...he deploys his usual seductive narrative gifts to great effect" Guardian
About the Author
John Fowles won international recognition with The Collector, his first published title, in 1963. He was immediately acclaimed as an outstandingly innovative writer of exceptional imaginative power. This reputation was confirmed with the appearance of his subsequent works including The Aristos, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa and A Maggot. John Fowles died in 2005.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
"I will read you a choice passage."
By frumiousb
Over the years, I have read a surprising number of John Fowles' books. I say surprising since I would not call him one of my favorite authors. I doubt that I have ever made any special effort to look for his work. Still, somehow his books end up in my "to be read pile". To date, I have gotten through The Magus (whatever), The French Lieutenant's Woman (pretty good), The Collector (bleah) and The Ebony Tower (okay). Of all those books, A Maggot is my favorite to date.
It's the kind of historical fiction that I actually enjoy. I like very much the way that Fowles employs different devices (interviews, letters, news articles) to keep reminding us of the narrative distance. He does his homework, but both the style and the subject matter effectively resist making us believe it "real". There is a nice mix of history, detail, speculation and psychology. As a reader, I had a solid Rashomon-style view of the little party and what become of them on their journey.
Ann Lee is a fascinating subject, however indirectly. I also really like the conceit of the maggot. (Fowles means an obsession, but also comes around to the more modern literal meaning later in the book.)
However, I do have an overall issue with Fowles as a writer that remains an issue with this book. I am willing to admit that this may well be more to my discredit than to his. My challenge is that I am left once again with the feeling that I do not really understand what the book is for. I found it entertaining enough, and even thought-provoking and admirable. Unfortunately, I am fairly sure that I am not well understanding what the book was really intended to say. There are some books where one can safely assume that the book was not really meant to say anything. I do not have that feeling with A Maggot. Instead, I have the sinking feeling that there is a point here-- and one that I am rather entirely missing. Perhaps it is simply the point that he makes in the Epilogue about religion. But then again I think that it is also more than that. I have never re-read any of his novels, and perhaps that is where I should begin next.
In all, as I have found of his works before, admirable and a little bit frustrating.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Another challenging story by John Fowles
By dinadan26
What a strange book. Having just finished this story, I find myself being unsure entirely what to make of it, I do not entirely think that it is successful, but it is imaginative and inventive and it goes to places which I was not entirely expecting.
To give an overview of the story, five people ride into a town in Devon in 1736. On first appearance they are a wealthy elderly gentleman, his young noble but poor nephew, a man servant and ladies maid and a guard on a mission to secure the nobleman an income via an assignation with a local woman. Several days later the man servant is found hung and the rest of the travelers have disappeared.
From this point we learn that the nobleman was in fact the youngest son of a very important peer and that none of the other travelers were what they initially appeared. The rest of the story is in the form an investigation undertaken by a lawyer who is an employee of said peer, to determine what transpired on the journey and the ultimate fate of his employers son, a well educated and thoughtful man who had recently been study a range of very esoteric philosophies. In the process of this investigation the lawyer finds and interrogates the three surviving members of the party, each of whom tells wildly divergent stories including a visitation from the devil and what appears to be time travelers in a UFO from an idealistic and peaceful future.
At the end of "A Maggot" many important facets remain unexplained, which is extremely frustrating but in keeping with the logic of the story, given that the three remaining view point characters are poorly educated and steeped in a tradition of explaining all unusual experiences or phenomena from a religious view point. The only person who could fill in the missing pieces is his Lordship, who remains the one participant whose story we never hear.
One of the many interesting elements that Fowles touches on in "A Maggot" is the relationship between his Lordship and his mute servant Dick, who it is suggested are the two disconnected "Manichaeist" halves of a single human nature with his Lordship being that which is spiritual and intellectual while Dick is the primal, base material side of our nature.
A stimulating is ultimately frustrating story.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Frustrating
By Massimo Coletti
The first half or so of this novel is very good: I found the characters interesting, the detail vivid and the plot gripping. It did seem to me here and there that the author tries a bit too hard to surprise and rouse curiosity, but still the result in this first half is effective and suspenseful: I found myself completely involved with Mr. Bartholomew's mysterious journey, and even more intrigued by Mr. Bartholomew himself and his deaf and dumb servant Dick. I was sure the nature of the strange relationship between servant and master would be explained in detail, and would play a substantial part in the unfolding of the enigma.
In short the novel promised to continue as a successful blend of historical literature and gripping mystery. However as I went on reading I started to get the impression that Fowles didn't quite know what to do with the plot; after Lacy's deposition the digressions become more and more frequent, while the story loses its focus. It's as if the author is forcing himself to add words and pages to a book he is losing control upon. Fortunately even these digressions are well written and informative, so that something is still gained by the reading.
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This dissatisfaction turned into frustration as I reached the end of the novel. It is clear that Rebecca's account of what happened in the cavern is the true one, although couched in highly mystical terms; this is clear because she tells of things which she can know nothing about, but we modern readers can recognize (an aircraft of some kind, with landing gear, portholes, a cabin full of buttons and dials and a big video screen on one of the walls.) But this science-fictional theme is poorly done, with little or no detail or background. The reference to Stonehenge is trite and, above all, the apparent motive of this visit from the future -- the conception of Ann Lee -- is ridiculous.
Another source of frustration is that not enough is told about Mr. Bartholomew and his background, or about Dick and his bond with his master. Most of the curiosity-raising episodes presented in the first part (burning of books, violets in the mouth of the dead servant etc.) are never explained; they are probably baits used to hook the reader and keep him reading on.
John Fowles states more than once that this book is a "maggot", in the sense of whim or quirk; I suspect this is an a posteriori apologetic remark to cover the essential hollowness of the novel, to justify the building of an elaborate stage whose worth is more than the drama enacted on it.
Anyhow the novel has some redeeming qualities: the prose is excellent, the narrative technique original, and, as far as I can tell, reproduces well enough the language and life of the 18th century.
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