John Fowles
John Robert Fowles ( born March 31, 1926 in Leigh-on -Sea, near London, † November 5, 2005 in Lyme Regis) was a British novelist.
John Fowles studied languages at Oxford University and worked as a teacher before turning since 1964 devoted exclusively to writing novels. His most successful books - " The French Lieutenant's " and " Daniel Martin " - come on first glance to be (temporarily ) historical narratives, therefore, but involve a number of historical and socio-critical insights, and can be as descriptions of the human condition in Read the 19th and 20th centuries. The same applies to the superficially applied as crime stories novels " The Grille " and " The Collector ", in which the anomie problem and the fundamental inscrutability of human action are discussed. In " Mantissa " Fowles is in dialogue with one of the muses of Greek mythology, his poetics dar.
" The Magus " - long regarded as his main work - presents the themes of freedom and free will at the center and asks about the possibility of knowledge itself. All novels of Fowles are characterized by the doubt about the perceived reality as it is maintained in the philosophical constructivism.
John Fowles lived in Lyme Regis in Dorset. He died of cancer.