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Note: Fowles was antisemitic and racist, though the depth of this antisemitism and racism was only revealed after his diaries were posthumonously released.



John Fowles (1926-2005) was an author. Fowles is best known for his novels The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Life[]

Born in the Essex town of Leigh-on-Sea in March of 1926, Fowles' father owned a tobacco importing firm named Allen & Wright after inheriting the company from Fowles' grandfather. John attended Bedford School during most of World War II. Near the end of the war, John enrolled into a Naval Short Course at the University of Edinburgh - with his service in the Navy lasting for two years. After this service ended, Fowles enrolled in the New College at Oxford - where he first read works by existentalist authors such as Sartre and Camus.

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Writing style[]

Though he never considered himself an existentalist, Fowles' works were influenced by the works of existentalist authors he read while at the New College. He is also considered to stand between modernism and postmodernism - with several of his works (including The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and A Maggot) being described as postmodern.

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Notable works[]

  • The Aristos - a collection of essays
  • The Ebony Tower - collected stories
    • The Ebony Tower - the titular novella of the volume, about a biographer visiting a strange older artist
    • Eliduc - a translation of Marie de France's lai
    • Poor Koko - about an author encountering a burglar
    • The Enigma - about the disappearance of a member of Parliament
    • The Cloud - about a family picnic
  • Shipwreck - a book featuring photographs by "The Gibsons of Sicily"
  • Islands
  • The Tree - a book on the creative arts
  • Wormholes - a collection of essays

Novels[]

  • The Collector - a novel about a man who "collects" a woman
  • The Magus - a metafictional and postmodernist novel about an English teacher on a Greek island
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman - a postmodernist novel about Victorian love
  • Daniel Martin - a Bildungsroman
  • Mantissa - a dialogue between its narrator and Erato
  • A Maggot - a postmodernist novel about a voyage of five travellers

Sources[]

  • Wikipedia
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