6/20/2023 0 Comments The ebony tower by john fowlesLater, however, in an interview with John Baker, he emphasised that the stories struck him as being variations on his earlier fictions only after he had written them, and spoke of being ‘amused by the detective work some critics have put in trying to find the links between them’. 1 In a note to the second story, ‘Eliduc’ (actually a translation of a twelfth-century tale by Marie de France), he says that the ‘working title of this collection of stories was Variations, by which I meant to suggest variations both on certain themes in previous books of mine and in methods of narrative presentation…’ (117). Inspiration to write The Ebony Tower stories came to Fowles suddenly, and he interrupted work on both Daniel Martin and his revision of The Magus to give them his full attention.
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