Top 3 John Fowles Books

If for something a man could boast Nietzsche If he could see the continuation of his work, existentialism as a fertile and diverse current would undoubtedly be his greatest satisfaction. John fowles he was an existentialist narrator as was his admired Albert Camus or as it still is Milan Kundera. And yet, the three are so different...

Because it is so existentialist to approach the molecular repercussions of an orgasmic explosion; as the moral transcendence of a God ruler of the conscience; even the irrepressible anguish of heartbreak; or even the uncontrolled euphoria of alcoholic excesses.

That existential point can be drawn from everything and above all this so many and so many good writers sought the magic of the deepest existence who in the end are essentially existentialists, including national authors such as Pio Baroja or even a Inclán Valley determined to burden his bohemian characters on the stage with the existence of the world.

The XNUMXth century is full of existentialist authors who tried to close the millennium with a literary brooch of glory and its miseries. That only a few authors have finally transcended as the most recognized existentialists is only a question of labels or the preeminence of the philosophical over the narrated fiction.

In the case of Fowles, it can be said that we are dealing with an existentialist at heart. Everything he narrates addresses elementary questions. But his arguments are not without irony, humor or psychological tension depending on the touch.

All seasoned with a taste for narrative play, for the avant-garde that already in its days was looking for new ways of telling in puzzle or in scattered focuses, all so that the reader ends up participating in the juicy challenge of reading and recreating. Especially admired in the Anglo-Saxon world as one of the great avant-gardes of the end of the last century, Fowles is always on the lookout for new readers in search of interesting reading experiences.

Top 3 Recommended Books by John Fowles

The French Lieutenant's Wife

Rarely will you find a novel like this in which the author accompanies you and stops your reading to enter into a debate on the scenes, on the decisions of the characters and on the basis for the events that come after each decision.

That existentialism that I spoke about earlier in the Fowles case acquires in this book a messianic point, to call it somehow, in which we play at stopping each scene to scrutinize the essences of that life stopped before our eyes, in a nineteenth-century imaginary composed in our mind and suddenly detached inviting wandering.

But best of all, the novel could maintain its strength without these plot breaks, but the power of leaving the scene to see everything is fantastic.

For the rest, the story itself takes us to 1867 to delve into one of those romantic loves that contain drives and that raise physical tension to the emotion with which those truly romantic loves were lived.

When you finish reading, you have the feeling that you have navigated through the narrated story and through the intrahistory hidden between the hearts of the lovers and their social conditions of a victory period that is also crumbled in its essence.

The French Lieutenant's Wife

The Wizard

A novel to enjoy the transformation and the knowledge that every human being deals with when he comes out of childhood, of protection, of the known.

Nicholas could be any of us, moved from our comfort zone to a new place where our patterns no longer make any sense.

The story tells of Nicholas's journey from London to a Mediterranean island. And of his encounter with a magician who seems to guide him like Dorian Gray towards the rediscovery of his soul.

Everything that Nicholas thinks or thinks he thinks about his being, that perspective of the self forged with time and learning, ends up becoming a field of doubt in the hands of the magician.

Enhancement of the sensory, of sex, behavioral experiences, pain, doubts and fear. Nicholas stripped of his entire being and offered to the world to see if he can make sense of something.

The wizard fowles

The collector

When one delves into writing in search of big questions, one can end up translating into fiction a great suspense novel that fills with tension to extremes never before reached.

A thriller seeks to reach those chemical connections in our brain that launch the warnings for fear, adrenaline and fear. And with fear, a Miranda ends up knowing a lot in the hands of the worst of criminals, the prototype of a psychopath obsessed with someone who finally manages to lock up his object of desire like a bird. Frederick and Miranda will sit face to face.

He waiting for Miranda to finally access his love so great that it has become essential for him to make her his forever. Miranda between the inextinguishable hope and the growing animosity of her abduction that can lead her to anything ...

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