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John Robert Fowles (/ faʊlz /; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
- The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Cobb at Lyme Regis, near where Charles and Ernestina...
- A Maggot
"Mr. Bartholomew" (real name unknown; son of the Duke):...
- John Fowler
John Fowler (politician) (1756–1840), U.S. Congressman from...
- The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Magus (1965) is a postmodern novel by British author John Fowles, telling the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate who is teaching English on a small Greek island. Urfe becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which become increasingly dark and serious.
- John Fowles
- 1965
John Fowles was an English novelist, whose allusive and descriptive works combine psychological probings—chiefly of sex and love—with an interest in social and philosophical issues. Fowles graduated from the University of Oxford in 1950 and taught in Greece, France, and Britain.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree.
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Fowles' writing is dominated by the consciousness of the author as a figure within his own books, entering the narrative at certain points to comment on the action, the characters' motives and possibilities, and explain how things might have been different.
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John Fowles was the author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman and managed to slip both postmodernism and existentialism into his widely read novels. Fowles, who had just missed the Second World War - he completed his training on 8 May 1945, VE Day - became an English language teacher in Greece before turning to fiction.
