John Fowles: The Collector

Like Fowles' other equally famous novels, his debut, "The Collector," resembles neither its "siblings" (penned by the great "magus") nor other works in the "psychological thriller" genre. A lonely, dim-witted, and simply unpleasant young man unexpectedly wins a huge sum of money in the lottery. What will he do with it, especially considering his passion for collecting butterflies and his 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 clash between Good and Evil, the primitive philistine and the sublime artist, Love, Death, and Beauty. The story of the butterfly collector and his victim is a skillfully constructed psychological thriller that reinterprets numerous themes, from the myth of Hades and Persephone to Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

Author: John Fowles

Translation: Irina Bessmertnaya 

Pages: 416 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 208x132x25 mm

Series: Bright Pages