John Fowles (1926–2005)
Auteur de Sarah et le lieutenant français
A propos de l'auteur
John Fowles was born in Essex, England, in 1926. He attended the University of Edinburgh for a short time, left to serve in the Royal Marines, and then returned to school at Oxford University, where he received a B.A. in French in 1950. Fowles taught English in France and Greece, as well as at St. afficher plus Godric's College in London. Although the main theme in all Fowles's fiction is freedom, there are few other similarities in his books. He has deliberately chosen to explore a different style or genre for each novel: The Collector, his first novel, is an intellectual thriller; The Magus is an adolescent learning novel, tracing the emotional development of the central character; Daniel Martin tries, in the modernist style, to depict psychological reality; Mantissa is a comedic allegory that takes place entirely inside the narrator's head; Maggot combines mystery, science fiction, and history; and The Ebony Tower is a collection of short stories. Fowles explored yet another genre, historical fiction, with his best-known novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, which received the W. H. Smith Literary Award in 1970 and was made into a movie, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, in 1981. An intriguing feature of this novel is that it has three different endings. Fowles's nonfiction includes Aristos: A Self Portrait in Ideas; Poems; and Wormholes: Essays and Other Occasional Writings. In addition, he has written the text for several books of photographs, including The Tree, for which Fowles received the Christopher Award in 1982. He died on November 5, 2005 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de John Fowles
The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma 8 exemplaires
Rare Antique THE COLLECTOR John Fowles FIRST BOOK 1st Edition First Print NOVEL 1963 Fiction 1 exemplaire
The Cloud 1 exemplaire
John Fowles: The Collector, The Magus & The French Lieutenant’s Woman: Three BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2022) 1 exemplaire
The Collector by John Fowles (1963-12-05) 1 exemplaire
The Man Who Made Wine 1 exemplaire
Eliduc 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associés
La Maîtresse du Lieutenant français (The French Lieutenant's Woman) (1981) — Original book — 126 exemplaires
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contributeur — 79 exemplaires
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
Hawker of Morwenstow: Portrait of an Eccentric Victorian (1975) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 20 exemplaires
William Golding: The Man and His Books - A Tribute on His 75th Birthday (1986) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica. Parts One and Two (1982) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 11 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Monumenta Britannica, or, A miscellany of British antiquities (1980) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 5 exemplaires
The Ebony Tower [1984 TV film] — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fowles, John
- Nom légal
- Fowles, John Robert
- Date de naissance
- 1926-03-31
- Date de décès
- 2005-11-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Groot-Brittannië
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Leigh upon Sea, Essex, England, Uk
- Lieu du décès
- Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
- Lieux de résidence
- Leighton-at-Sea, Essex, GB
Lyme Regis, Dorset, GB - Études
- Bedford School, Bedford, England
Oxford University (New College) - Professions
- writer
- Prix et distinctions
- Times 50 Top Writers Since 1945 (30)
- Courte biographie
- John Fowles, geboren in 1926, studeerde aan de universiteit van Oxford, waar hij later Frans doceerde. Op zesendertigjarige leeftijd werd hij plotseling beroemd door het succes van zijn eerste roman The Collector (1963). Zijn faam werd nog bevestigd door de verfilming van dit eerste boek en door de twee lijvige romans die volgden: The Magus (De magiër, 1966) en The French Lietenant’s Woman (Het liefje van de Franse luitenant, 1969). Vooral dit laatste boek bezorgde Fowles in de Verenigde Staten een ongekend grote populariteit. In 1974 verscheen Fowles’ tot nu toe laatste boek, de novellenbundel The Ebony Tower (De ebbehouten toren). Fowles woont tegenwoordig in de Zuid-engelse badplaats Lyme Regis, waar zich ook een groot gedeelte van Het liefje van de Franse luitenant afspeelt (flaptekst).
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Discussions
June Group Read: The Magus (John Fowles) à 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Juillet 2016)
Group Read, November 2015: The Collector à 1001 Books to read before you die (Novembre 2015)
1001 Group Read - June, 2013: The French Lieutenant's Woman à 1001 Books to read before you die (Novembre 2013)
Fowles' The Magus à Someone explain it to me... (Mars 2010)
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- Œuvres
- 42
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- 21
- Membres
- 23,500
- Popularité
- #894
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 410
- ISBN
- 531
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- 29
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- 107
- Liens rapides
- 901