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The Collector is one of Fowles' best-known novels, although it falls short of The Magus and the outrageous The Worm in loud glory. But, perhaps, it is precisely this calmly thoughtful novel, comparable in internal expression to the prose of William Golding, that creates a quite clear idea of ​​​​Fowles' philosophical and aesthetic concept ...

The debut novel by John Fowles "The Collector" is not like any other book of the great "sorcerer" or other works of the "psychological detective" genre. A lonely, dim-witted and simply unpleasant young man unexpectedly wins a huge amount of money in the lottery. What will he do with her, especially considering his passion for collecting butterflies and secret love for a local beauty? In the story of the confrontation between the maniac and his victim, Fowles saw Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the confrontation between Good and Evil, the primitive man in the street and the sublime artist, Love, Death and Beauty.

Like other equally well-known novels by Fowles, his debut "The Collector" does not look like either his "brothers" (belonging to the pen of the great "sorcerer") or other works of the "psychological detective" genre. A lonely, dim-witted and simply unpleasant young man unexpectedly wins a huge amount of money in the lottery. What will he do with her, especially considering his passion for collecting butterflies and secret love for a local beauty?

In the story of the confrontation between a maniac and his victim, Fowles saw Shakespeare's "The Tempest", a confrontation between Good and Evil, a primitive maniac and a sublime artist, Love, Death and Beauty.