Mantissa by John Fowles
A celebrated but blocked novelist is visited by a self-proclaimed Muse who appears in multiple guises and draws him into a combative, erotic and intensely metafictional dialogue about creativity, desire and the dynamics of male authorship; through alternating scenes of explicit sexual play and philosophical argument, their sparring exposes fantasies, anxieties and power struggles, forcing the writer to confront the unstable boundaries between life and art and the moral responsibilities of creation.
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- Published
- 1982
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 160-200
- Original Language
- English
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