Just heard about this guy and thinking about reading some of his books. What does /lit/ think about him? Should I just start with The Collector?
>>25506083A while back I had the same question and someone said that he was the pseud's idea of the thinking man's novelist and that hurt my feelings because I loved The Collector. So I say start with The Collector. Love that book. But I've never been able to get that phrase out of my head and now you never will either. sorry
>>25506083>insert pic of [person]>[intro sentence] What does [board] think about [person]? [outro sentence]>insert a reply of two to make the post look organic and stimulate engagement>no need to ever engage with the replies - most anons are too bovine to notice that bit4chan is dead
>>25506096I heard of him because of the wikipedia page on "historiographical metafiction" hence I'm mostly interested in The French Lieutenant's Woman, but I always like starting with an author's earlier novels to see how their style has progressed. >he was the pseud's idea of the thinking man's novelistIn what way do you think this might be true?>>25506223If I'd read a book by the guy I'd at least make a post describing it and what I enjoyed about it. Anyway, I'd like to think getting /lit/ to discuss a specific author and his works is better than social media screencap threads.
>>25506083The Collector is his best work and I think it's the one most people read first when the want to get into Fowles. Everything else is too weird, experimental or cucked.
>>25506083Collector is excellent, definitely start there
>>25506700Cuckoldry is the thinking man’s fetish
>>25506700Interesting. The only one I'd actually heard of by him was The Magus. I tend to not like metafiction, not in principle because I do think it can be done well (eg Calvino) but most of the time it's just a lazy device that allows an author to navel-gaze endlessly.
>>25506720Read The Collector, and if you like it, read Daniel Martin and The French Lieutenant's Woman. If you didn't lose interest by then, read The Magus. If after reading The Magus you want more, read the rest of his corpus.That's my personal guide to him, it goes from "I understand what I'm reading, or at least I can follow the plot" to "what am I reading and why is there so much sexual tension in the air?" progressively.
