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“I've always wanted to write,” declared John Fowles in a 1964 essay, “(in this order) poems, philosophy, and only then novels” (published in Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings, 1998). Though he has established a reputation as a philosopher—both a philosophical novelist and, in The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas (1964), an accomplished existentialist thinker—and has published books of essays, naturalist writing, and one book of poetry, it is as a novelist that Fowles is firmly established in the first rank of postwar English authors. His six novels, published over two decades, have brought him a combination of popular success and critical and intellectual acclaim that is almost unprecedented in his time. His success in the marketplace derives from his great skill as a storyteller. His fiction is rich in narrative suspense, romantic conflict, and erotic drama. Remarkably, he manages to sustain such effects while, as an experimental writer testing conventional assumptions about reality, he examines and parodies the traditional devices of storytelling.
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