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World Service,30 Jun 1992,28 mins

talking with John Fowles

Meridian

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Critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism, John Fowles, author of ‎The Magus, The Collector and The French Lieutenant's Woman, talks of his battle with solitude and the pleasing mystery of nature: "There is a strong parallel between writing and walking through an unknown wood."

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