Resumen de The Ebony Tower: text and intertexts
Fowles's insistence in "A Personal Note" and elsewhere that the four short stories that make up The Ebony Tower collection were variations both on the themes and on the narrative methods employed in his previous novels interestingly contradicts the reaction of Fowles's own editor and of the first professional reviewers, who were unable to see any kind of connexion among them. My purpose is to analyse the short story that gives the whole collection its title, "The Ebony Tower," with a view to establishing the intratextual form and meaning of the short story proper and its intertextual connexions with Fowles's avowed major sources: medieval romance and The Magus.
