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John Robert Fowles (/ f aʊ l z /; 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.
Nov 8, 2005 · He was best known for his next novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1969), which Karel Reisz made into a successful movie in 1981, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, from a...
On October 23, 1977, John Fowles was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for the BBC Television show “The Lively Arts.” The following is a transcript. MELVYN BRAGG: John Fowles is one of the handful of British authors treated with respect by the press and with delight by a wide public.
In “The Magus” by John Fowles, the island of Phraxos can be seen as an allegory for the human mind. The island’s shifting landscapes and unpredictable inhabitants represent the complex and often contradictory nature of human thought and emotion.
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.
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His best-known fiction includes his first novel, The Collector (1963), the story of a young clerk, a butterfly collector, who kidnaps a young woman; The Magus (1966), set on a Greek island where a schoolteacher confronts a series of disturbing events; and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), a formally experimental novel that tells the tale of ...
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