Sleight-of-Hand: Writing, History, and Magic in Brian Moore’s The Magician’s Wife
Brian Moore’s latest novel, The Magician’s Wife (1997), is set in nineteenth-century France and Algeria. In this work about magic, Moore manipulates history, rewrites it, and the nature of faith is investigated from the diametrically opposed agendas of colonizer and colonized. As readers, we are cau...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Brian Moore’s latest novel, The Magician’s Wife (1997), is set in nineteenth-century France and Algeria. In this work about magic, Moore manipulates history, rewrites it, and the nature of faith is investigated from the diametrically opposed agendas of colonizer and colonized. As readers, we are caught in a fictional reconstruction of precise historical events and, like the protagonist, Emmeline Lambert, we are compelled to wrestle with disturbing questions of faith and empire. |
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