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gef 's review for:
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
I read this book too long ago to tell you more than that I was fascinated by Fowles' recognition of the enormous gap in consciousness between himself and his readers, on one side, and the people of over a century earlier who are his characters. At one point he interrupts his narrative to tell us about the impossibility of really understanding the thinking of those times, while assembling enough clues to give us a sense of their anxieties and aspirations. In the film version (on which Fowles collaborated) that distance is made clear by the device of showing us both the fictional characters and the 20th century filmmakers. I loved it.