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John Robert Fowles (* 31. März 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea bei London; † 5. November 2005 in Lyme Regis) war ein englischer Erzähler, Dichter und Essayist, der als einer der ersten postmodernen Autoren die Literatur des letzten Drittels des 20. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich beeinflusst hat.
John Robert Fowles (/ f aʊ l z /; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
27. März 2024 · John Fowles (born March 31, 1926, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England—died November 5, 2005, Lyme Regis, Dorset) was an English novelist, whose allusive and descriptive works combine psychological probings—chiefly of sex and love—with an interest in social and philosophical issues.
Fowles offers pleasure and sentiment in the mode of the nineteenth century realist novel, complete with wonderfully realised characters, epigraphs to its chapters, and even sets it in his own town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. But this is written by a modern consciousness, aware of Darwin, Marx and Freud, (not to mention Barthes and Robbe-Grillet ...
John Robert Fowles was born March 31, 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town located about 40 miles from London in the county of Essex, England. He recalls the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles says “I have tried to escape ever since.”
Lebenslauf. John Fowles, 1926 im englischen Leigh-on-Sea (Essex) geboren, studierte in Oxford Romanistik und stand seither den Existenzialisten um Jean-Paul Sartre und Albert Camus nahe.
Gegründet am 10. Todestag von John Fowles, bemüht sich die Deutsche John-Fowles-Gesellschaft darum, einem deutschsprachigen Publikum das Werk des englischen Autors (wieder) ins Gedächtnis zu rufen.
