THE THEME OF DOUBLE/MULTIPLE TRUTHS AND ENDINGS IN JOHN FOWLES’S FICTION
THE THEME OF DOUBLE/MULTIPLE TRUTHS AND ENDINGS IN JOHN FOWLES’S FICTION
Author(s): Dimitrie Andrei BorcanSubject(s): Fiction, Philology, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: double/multiple truth; acting; part; appearance; metamorphosis;
Summary/Abstract: This study is research on the theme of appearance/essence as double/multiple truth revealed to the reader throughout six of John Fowles’s fiction pieces, and concluded with multiple endings, as indefinite as the tales, leaving room for multiple interpretations of the past and the future. Fowles’s characters are maggots in a perpetual metamorphosis, fluid identities, they cannot survive as definitive characterizations, and their stories may be read as gestalt images in at least two different manners. His truth hides other layers of truth, he is ultimately an imaginative skeptic.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 25
- Page Range: 554-560
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English