SOURCE: "John Fowles, 'The Enigma' and the Contemporary British Short Story," in Modes of Narrative, Approaches to American, Canadian and British Fiction, edited by Reingard M. Nischik and Barbara Korte, Königshausen & Neumann, 1990, pp. 179-89.
Below, Broich analyzes "The Enigma " in the context of the mimetic and aesthetic traditions of British short fiction, acknowledging the story's seminal influence on the postmodern, experimental short story form.
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