Descargue como pdf, txt o lea en linea desde scribd. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in london and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. His work reflects the influence of jeanpaul sartre and albert camus, among others. Psychological thrillers of more recent times, like descent and intensity probably found their roots with the dark character study in books like the collector. John fowless classic story of possession, obsession and love is considered one of the great works in modern literature. I thought this was just a brilliant novel by john fowles. He recalled the english suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Very unsettling, and very chilling, with enough plot twists to keep you guessing.
I believe that john fowles ranks among the halfdozen finest novelists of his generation. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in. The tree, published in 1992, is partly a memoir of childhood and explores fowles enduring love of nature. With the goal of spurring more interest in this seminal figure, i am commemorating the 10th anniversary of fowless death by publishing 5 online essays on his work. The collector by john fowles 3 annie always said it was my mother that drove him to drink. Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, frederick, as well as that of miranda, the captive. My cousin mabel once told me when we were kids, in a quarrel she was a woman of the streets who went off with a foreigner. Robert fowles came from a family of middleclass merchants of london. John fowles s classic story of possession, obsession and love is considered one of the great works in modern literature. His work reflects the influence of jeanpaul sartre and albert camus, among others after leaving oxford university, fowles taught english at a school on the greek island of spetses, a sojourn that. Fowles was born in leighonsea in essex, england, the son of gladys may richards and robert john fowles. Winning a fortune in the lottery he buys a remote country house, and goes about furnishing it with everything he thinks a beautiful woman could desire. They never told me what really happened, but she went off soon after and left me with aunt annie, she only wanted an easy time. John fowles lived in lyme regis in dorset on the south coast of england and was for a period curator of the local museum.