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The magus 19656/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a theme he developed further in The Magus, in which he introduces the concept of the "Godgame" - an elaborate series of conceits that leave the hero uncertain of where reality ends and fantasy begins. The French Lieutenant's Women drew comparisons with Thomas Hardy and Henry James, due to its vivid pastiche of the Victorian realist novel and sense of place - Lyme Regis in Dorset, in which he spent much of his later life.Īs a writer, however, he is often cited as bridging the gap between modernist authors such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and contemporary writers like Salman Rushdie and Will Self.īy playing with the novel's constraints and restrictions, notably by providing alternate endings in The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles challenged the concept of the powerful, all-knowing creator and deliberately highlighted fiction's illusory nature. His genius lay as much in his masterly storytelling as his experiments with storytelling itself, most notably by incorporating the figure of the author as a capricious, unreliable commentator on characters and events. Fowles often drew on his own life, notably in Daniel Martin ![]()
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