John Fowles

[liadnan]

is dead.

The Magus remains one of my favourite books, though not everything he wrote was of anything approaching that standard.

Comments

[booklectica]

John Fowles is what? No! I planned to meet him one day. He wasn't that old, was he?

The French Lieutenant's Woman is one of my favourite books, and The Magus and The Collector are up there too. Mantissa is silly but oddly appealing. Have you read his book of articles?

[liadnan]

79 apparently.

I haven't read the articles, no? Any good?

[booklectica]

Interesting, I thought. Can lend them to you if you like, should be out on the 19th.

79? God. That's not such a shock, then.

[djm4]

Mantissa is silly but oddly appealing.

Is Mantissa the one with Erato the muse? And a run-on sentence that goes on for two pages or so?

[booklectica]

Yes, that's the one.

[djm4]

Bonkers, but probably in a good way. It's about twenty years since I read it, and much of the post-modern self-referential stuff went straight over my head, but I remember enjoying it while still having a slight feeling of reading a very obvious male wish-fulfillment fantasy.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

Everything you said, with a quick pimp for Daniel Martin, which is one of the most underrated books I can think of and a fascinating exploration of what it means to be English.