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fin e By Lehman Danlftl Martin hv John Fm Certain books cannot be rea< sense of the word; they ci becoming an inseparable par Martin, by John Fowles, is c intensely personal, energy-ch prayer, Daniel Martin touch distinguishing all great books Irresistibility dominates the pages. Daniel Martin is a p who cannot resolve the two o Martin is foremost a ron microscopic particularity of ween men and women, and th women tnemseives. The story playfully flits ar fiction and reality; Martin o character in someone else's female companions says, "B own name in a novel. Besides ever go for a character nam AS IT turns out, the reader of unexpected proportions. T with the frightening fact that more real than the reader ; 1 valid that they gain analogies i This is what almost every has fallen just short of, but Da resonate the truths of human 1 to a deus ex machina-inspired of love without ever using the damsels in distress and squa every paragraph. Fowles has pulled off this i almost every facet, of the 1 traditions and scenarios of ev but the reader is unaware of Fowles integrates character credibly polished. EVEN THE usually grosslj sex is approached in silent meaning, in a scene ui great 11 the novel, Martin is seduced b while they are both still at oboist began to play Delius, a hand across the rug, almost fo bride." Thanks to Winifn for loaning books r K^ivV/^ ISMAU Re< SPEC j; Served with Hushpupj KsSi: J Free Ice Tea with IV ; Phone ahead f< ! ' i 1725 BROAI) RIVER ! f I 120H KNOX ABBOTT | 3200 TWO NOTCH RE nergi Stiles sit .vies; Signal; $295 un i in the normal, passive pe *n onlv hp nhsnrhf?H en J ? t of the reader. Daniel un >ne of those books. An hu larged celebration and ke es on that rare factor > ? it lives. : book from the opening th< laywright-screenwriter se ccupations. But Daniel ar lance, a study with hu the relationships bet- be erefore of the men and lih rej ound the boundary of ften sees himself as a SD, ni?.. ? J piety, tuiu UIIC ui ma (rj ut you can't use your rej i, it's so square. Who'd ios ed Daniel Martin?" co] th( would, and to a degree he reader has to deal Martin at times seems ?ir lis experiences are so n the reader's own life. . efl romance ever written niel Martin manages to . ove without descending bathos. The story talks word, without dangling ?* re-jawed heroes out of ret rei miracle with respect to SU! x>ok: he writes in the ?! ery novelist of the past, it. The skill with which , plot and idea is in- . gr To i overwritten subject of ^ ;e and respect for its ja mportance to the rest of y his future wife's sister Oxford: "The student nd she reached her free >rmally, like a medieval a bf t ed King of the Book eviewed in the book ic. 3-9 pies, Cole Slaw & PF. leal with USC ID. >r quick carry out service. RD. Fh. 798 DR., CAYCE Fh. 796 ). Fh. ?8 .j-char But Fowles's greatest skill is ivity to the gentle reverbera eaning that makes up the stuff dercurrents of allegory and m< ople steer gingerly through life 1 i- Al uuunici meiuseives in me ocear derstands what images and fe man condition; he plays rich yboard of human emotion. HIS SENSE of the appropriate, o e basis of his prose. When from es a policeman give a derelict a c resting him, as he had expected manity shifts: "Which leaves hind his window above, obliged I ;e an inefficient god who sees a h paired by what he had forgotte There are faults in the book. Fi ends too much time analvzine sii iits of his characters as if he h ader's ability to grasp their mei es control of his prose, allowir triplex sermons on subjects only ? story. The rhetoric is interesting to re ids himself wishing that Fowles The long dissertations tend to r r plotting and do not serve to h< feet. 3ut for the greatest part, Danic $ht from stereotypes, from the it are cancers on every poorly-w the characters are quite what t im to be. and while the nov conciliation one subconsciousl; ider is led to this end through rc spense. This method draws for ;aning from the situations. BUT THE most fascinating aspe his encompassing of the spii eatest novelists. He has all the r ilstoi, all the romantic intensity e incisive knowledge of the huir mes. The novel bristles with ang irmonies. And although the plot r e sheer volume of Fowles's idea life-changing experience, a stoi we ui uui HAiaicntc, a IUVC auiig Corner section. <f UjG y y \ y (m y II I III I mji ged c his limitless sen- .. tion of idea and of life, the quiet emory over which is of truth. Fowles ij Ijis^window Martin would get on with nask a real genius :1 Martin is in full Titten novel. 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