Fowles's favorite book as a boy was Richard Jefferies's Bevis (1882).įowles was educated at Alleyn Court School and Bedford School. Respectable little people had an early depressive effect on me," he "The rows of respectable little houses inhabited by The son of Robert Fowles, a prosperous cigar merchant, and Gladys John Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, in the south-east of England, Nothing is true, everything is permitted." (from The Magus) "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you mayĬouple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great The commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They were successful because they imposed chaos on order. "One of the greatįallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they Their past, self-delusions and illusions, in order to gain their Fowles's best-known novels include The French Lieutenant's (1969), adapted into screen in 1981, and The Magus (1965), Master of layered story-telling, illusionism, and purposefullyĪmbiguous endings. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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