{"product_id":"9781578061914-conversations-with-john-fowles","title":"Conversations with John Fowles","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his long literary career, John Fowles has managed the feats of welding stunning innovation to tradition, pushing the formal boundaries of literary fiction, and still capturing critical acclaim and popular success. In this first book of interviews devoted to Fowles, Dianne Vipond gathers over twenty of his most revealing interviews.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough best known for his novels \u003cem\u003eThe Collector\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Magus\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe French Lieutenant's Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, John Fowles is also a short story writer, a poet, a respected translator, and a prolific essayist. In his long literary career, he has managed the feats of welding stunning innovation to tradition, pushing the formal boundaries of literary fiction, and still capturing critical acclaim, popular success, and a worldwide readership. In \u003cem\u003eConversations with John Fowles\u003c\/em\u003e, the first book of interviews devoted to the English writer, Dianne L. Vipond gathers over twenty of the most revealing interviews Fowles has granted in the last forty years. With critics, scholars, and journalists, he discusses his life, his art, his distinctive world view, and his special relationship with nature. Throughout his interviews, Fowles's remarkable consistency of thought is illuminated as he covers the meaning and genesis of his work. His uncompromising honesty and refreshing lack of guardedness are evident when he compares the naturalness of writing with eating or making love. From the 1960s through the 1990s, this master chronicler of the late half of the twentieth century reveals his serious engagement with social, political, and philosophical issues. He identifies himself with feminism, socialism, humanism, and the environmental movement, and he explores his recurring theme of personal, artistic, and socio-political freedom. His books, he says, \"\"are about the difficulty of attaining personal freedom, especially in terms of discovering what one is.\"\" Any reader who has been intrigued, challenged, and entertained by his work in the past is sure to find these conversations spanning the writer's career to be stimulating and revealing. Dianne L. Vipond is a professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. A co- editor of the book \u003cem\u003eLiteracy, Language, and Power\u003c\/em\u003e, she has published articles in \u003cem\u003eEnglish Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShort Story\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwentieth Century Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56844534481270,"sku":"9781578061914","price":23.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38262607.jpg?v=1765453751","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781578061914-conversations-with-john-fowles","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}