ILLEGAL USE OF DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES CAUSES HEALTH DAMAGE; THEIR ILLEGAL CIRCULATION IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ACCORDING TO LEGISLATION. John Fowles is one of the most outstanding and popular British writers, a contemporary classic, author of "The Collector" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman." "The Magus" serves as Fowles's kind of calling card. In this novel, on a remote Greek island, a mysterious "magician" conducts ruthless psychological experiments on people, subjecting them to the torture of passion and nothingness. The realist tradition combines in the book with elements of mysticism and detective story. The erotic scenes are possibly the best written about carnal love in the second half of the 20th century.