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Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is narrated in turns by the young man and his captive, giving two opposing points of view.
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Intimate, grave, bleak and contemplative.
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- gravecomic
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- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- John Fowles
- First published
- June 1983
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Книжковий клуб «Клуб Сімейного дозвілля», Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Pan
- Editions
- 63
- Language
- Spanish, English, ukr, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9785170165537
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“WHEN she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right opposite the Town Hall Annexe.”
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
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