The French Lieutenant’s Woman follows Charles as he first meets Sarah by the ocean in an English seaside town. He is walking with his fiance, Ernestina, but is immediately drawn to the black, forlorn figure standing with her back to the shore. When he later chances upon her again he cannot deny that he is fascinated, and not just by her mysterious, tragic past, but also because he totally wants to bang her. “There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there […]
You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf – your book, your romanced autobiography.
CBR10Bingo – Backlog This will also briefly discuss the film version, which I also watched, but focuses on the novel. I chose this book for the Backlog section because I’ve had copies of several John Fowles novels on my shelves for years, and except for an aborted attempt at his novel A Maggot, I’ve never read one. I became aware of Fowles through a British professor who taught Modernism and also mentioned his Contemporary literature class which included this novel. I read several of the […]