The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 06, 1978, Page Page 10, Image 10
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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."
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he reader has to deal
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lis experiences are so
n the reader's own life. .
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romance ever written
niel Martin manages to .
ove without descending
bathos. The story talks
word, without dangling ?*
re-jawed heroes out of
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miracle with respect to SU!
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ery novelist of the past,
it. The skill with which ,
plot and idea is in- .
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To
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;e and respect for its ja
mportance to the rest of
y his future wife's sister
Oxford: "The student
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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
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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
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