Abstract: The French Lieutenant’s Woman is the most influential novel of John Fowles. Fowles, who was deeply influenced by and greatly interested in existentialism, provides an illustration for existentialism in this novel. Therefore, existentialism is a key to the understanding of this novel. This article analyzes the elements of existentialism from the aspects of “lonely and mysterious individual”, “individual and the other”, and “individual existence and freedom” so that another way of interpretation for this novel is disclosed.
Key words: John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman existentialism
注解
① See Peter Wolfe, John Fowles: Magus and Moralist(Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press,1976)25.
② 本文依据的中译本是陈安全译:《法国中尉的女人》(上海:上海译文出版社,2002年)。下文凡出自该处的引文只注明页码,不再一一说明。
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