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Haunts of the Black Masseur (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

The seeds for Charles Sprawson’s Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero were sown, the author tells us, in the four years he taught classical literature in what is identified only as “an Arab university.” Deprived of the refreshing pleasure of recreational swimming in a parched climate, the young Englishman spent long afternoons in his shadowy quarters and nights on the rooftop beneath the stars tracking down and making extensive notes on references to springs, pools, and bathing in the books that came his way. In the “strange, unnatural climate” in which he...

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