John Fowles
07/11/05 15:20 Filed in: Apple
John Fowles
has died, aged 79.
There's an obituary here.
Predictably everyone angles on the French Lieutenant's Woman, though I think only because it was a successful movie. Personally I couldn't get into that book, alone of all his output.
I loved John Fowles' writing.
I felt I grew up when I read The Magus.
It is the single best novel ever, a transcendent, brilliant novel like no other, where he toys with the reader, creates with ease and control. His sentences flow into paragraphs and into chapters and the plot spins like layers being added to an onion, at once appearing to be stripped away and forever becoming mistier. You can't but be humble at the author's skill, that anyone can reach those heights of control over their narrative. The way magic and reality moved seamlessly is genius.
Well, the sentiment is shared by the obituary writer on his website, here, who says it was Fowles' favourite book too.
The Magus' closing quote, 'cras amet qui numquam quique amavit cras amet' translates as,
There's an obituary here.
Predictably everyone angles on the French Lieutenant's Woman, though I think only because it was a successful movie. Personally I couldn't get into that book, alone of all his output.
I loved John Fowles' writing.
I felt I grew up when I read The Magus.
It is the single best novel ever, a transcendent, brilliant novel like no other, where he toys with the reader, creates with ease and control. His sentences flow into paragraphs and into chapters and the plot spins like layers being added to an onion, at once appearing to be stripped away and forever becoming mistier. You can't but be humble at the author's skill, that anyone can reach those heights of control over their narrative. The way magic and reality moved seamlessly is genius.
Well, the sentiment is shared by the obituary writer on his website, here, who says it was Fowles' favourite book too.
The Magus' closing quote, 'cras amet qui numquam quique amavit cras amet' translates as,
"Tomorrow let him love who has never loved; he who has loved, let him love tomorrow."
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