The Godgame as a Metaphor for Existence in John Fowles’s The Magus
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The Magus, John Fowles’s the second novel, was published in 1965. Although second in terms of publication date, the novel had been reworked since the early 1950s. Many critics and reviewers were so disturbed by the labyrinthine complexity of The Magus, such as the mazes of the godgame, the multiple identities of its dramatis personae, and the ambiguous nature of each vision of “reality” devised by Maurice Conchis. This paper was to examine the original title of The Godgame as a metaphor for existence as well as a paradigm for the texts of both fiction and life. In Fowles’s philosophy, God, like a novelist, disappears once he has created his text (the universe) and leaves his reader (humanity) to work out what is going on, or whether He even exists. In The Magus, Fowles devised a structural metaphor, the “godgame,” to illustrate this apparent paradox. He created, in the imposing figure of Conchis, an author who “plays” god but ultimately denies his omniscience. Godgame is also a paradigm for the texts of both fiction and life. At the center of this microcosm is the elusive Conchis―magus, author, and god. Hence every phase of the Godgame is designed to reflect those fictions that have imprisoned Nicholas in the decadent genre his narcissism has appropriated, while preparing him for the genre he has yet to confront, yet to create―that of reality. Each aspect of this meta-drama mirrors and mocks not only Nicholas’s foibles, but those of an entire generation as well.
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