![]() I saw that I was from now on, for ever, contemptible. Fowles’ own justification for this plot twist at the end – more pomo stuff with the author as character/commentator – is that he admires religious dissenters. A death to be remembered, not the true death of a true suicide, the death obliterate. It may well be justified to bring about the religious sect and Rebecca’s giving birth to a baby who turns out to be Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers but it doesn’t really work for me. I am not inherently adverse to them but I do find they grate when parachuted into a post-modernist Victorian literary novel. Some people like science fiction UFO novels. However, where the novel loses me is the UFO bit. This is all good fun even if it sometimes seems like just an excuse for different people to have sex with one another. ![]() Moreover, their relationships with the other characters also seem to move around. ![]() We get Magus-like identity problems – no-one is quite who they seem. ![]() This is not to say that this novel does not have its pleasures. In this novel, the same principle applies but the Victorian novel is buried in the post-modern novel. The beauty of The French Lieutenant’s Woman was its post-modernist treatment of a Victorian novel, whereby we could get both a Victorian novel and a post-modern novel out of it. ![]() Home » England » John Fowles » A Maggot John Fowles: A Maggot ![]()
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