Creature

The Creature is one of the most interesting and striking thriller novels of today's English literature. Just like Dostoyevsky's novels, it has an ethical depth full of paradoxes that surround people, but at the same time, it has a breathtaking immersion resulting from Fowles' virtuoso storytelling technique.
What is described is a strange image that appears at intervals in the author's mind and gradually gains shape. The image of a small horse-drawn convoy traveling on the horizon of endless barren lands on a cold, dark spring day... the journey full of riddles of this convoy, including a mysterious woman... and the interrogation that follows the unexpected death at the end of the road... An ordinary detective story. An intricate narrative that extends beyond the event, reaches metaphysical dimensions, and carries science fiction overtones.
John Fowles, who is considered one of the most prominent writers of contemporary English literature, again chooses a historical background as the backdrop for his novel, as in his famous novel called The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Victorian England. However, his aim is definitely not to write a historical novel in the classical sense. The novel is based on the teachings and practices of the Shaker sect, which is known for its simple lives and radical opposition to the authority of the church institution, claiming that Jesus will come to the world again as a "woman", having communitarian elements in their daily lives, and advocating poverty and sexual abstinence. However, in The Creature, Fowles appears before us as a writer who looks at the past from the future and evaluates the mentality of that time from the extremely complex point of view of the contemporary individual, loaded with modernity. On the one hand, while he reveals very interesting details about the social stratification, customs, and class progression structures of 18th century England, on the other hand, as an author who is aware that he is creating a fictional work, he mobilizes his ability to tell gripping stories.
The Creature, which was chosen as the best translated novel in France in 1985, is one of those rare literary masterpieces that gives you a feverish reading pleasure and that you will not want to let go of for a moment.



Number of Pages: 480

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Print Year: 2011

Number of Pages: 480

Language Turkish