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The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
I am so thankful for the existence of Fowles and for the fact that, be them translated or not, I keep falling in love with his works over and over again. Although this is only the second book I've read by him this far, I just know he is one of my favourite authors and I shall slowly but surely make my way through all his other ones.
A multi-faceted story about women and the male gaze, The French Lieutenant's Woman follows a plethora of characters that stand for a plethora of principles. That is, I feel, less important to discuss in a review, because this is one of those books in whose case you must get to know the characters page by page in order to enjoy it fully.
What I feel that I can say, though, is that I fell head over heels with Fowles' post-modernistic approach to the Victorian era, with the funny and ironic way in which he throws a critique at the society and, most of all, with his interventions and his way of pulling you out of the story all of a sudden and then shoving you right back in, without making you confused any bit whatsoever. He is an author that speaks to the reader (literally) and I haven't ever enjoyed such a work written by anyone else before.
The characters are to die for, very well-developed and eye-catching, especially considering the social background they are living their lives in. You get to know them quite well, to laugh when they laugh and to suffer when they do. You get to be confused with them and to try to be content in the end. And then, from time to time, it seems like you get to have a coffee with the author himself, who tells you tales about his tale. What could you want more?
I certainly recommend this book to people. I don't know to whom really, because it is pretty dense, so probably not to beginners. But if you ever wanted to give it a chance and thought that it may be a soap opera type of romance book and thus not worth it... The French lieutenant's woman shall change your mind about that. Just you try her.
A multi-faceted story about women and the male gaze, The French Lieutenant's Woman follows a plethora of characters that stand for a plethora of principles. That is, I feel, less important to discuss in a review, because this is one of those books in whose case you must get to know the characters page by page in order to enjoy it fully.
What I feel that I can say, though, is that I fell head over heels with Fowles' post-modernistic approach to the Victorian era, with the funny and ironic way in which he throws a critique at the society and, most of all, with his interventions and his way of pulling you out of the story all of a sudden and then shoving you right back in, without making you confused any bit whatsoever. He is an author that speaks to the reader (literally) and I haven't ever enjoyed such a work written by anyone else before.
The characters are to die for, very well-developed and eye-catching, especially considering the social background they are living their lives in. You get to know them quite well, to laugh when they laugh and to suffer when they do. You get to be confused with them and to try to be content in the end. And then, from time to time, it seems like you get to have a coffee with the author himself, who tells you tales about his tale. What could you want more?
I certainly recommend this book to people. I don't know to whom really, because it is pretty dense, so probably not to beginners. But if you ever wanted to give it a chance and thought that it may be a soap opera type of romance book and thus not worth it... The French lieutenant's woman shall change your mind about that. Just you try her.