Daniel Martin
by John Fowles
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Author: John FowlesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-08-04
ISBN: 0316290394
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Book Review: Brilliant! One reading is not enough
Summary: 5 Stars
This is something of a remembered review because it's been a few years since my last reading of Daniel Martin. Between my first and second reading there must have been at least 15 years. I expect I shall read it again. The reason I'm writing this now is that it's become apparent that to continue to live in marital bliss, I have to admit that there is a limit to how many bookcases one man should fill. I came across it when making room for my new books. Nevertheless, the next time I read it, it will probably be available on Kindle.
This is a masterwork of storytelling of isolation and silences. You can almost see the action unfolding at times. The styles change. Sometimes there is a first-person narrative, other times it's in the third person.
The silences are ubiquitous: in parked cars, first-class train compartments, between people. Its power is in what is not said in the empty spaces between Fowles's isolated characters. He writes of using silence like sabers. The book portrays a breakdown of shared values. Nell's professional jealousy and a slow erosion of shared vocabulary create distance between her and Jane. Daniel has cut himself off from the world he knows and is culturally isolated in Hollywood. He is bewildered by the world he finds himself in. Sex, as he sees it, is as an American topic for endless comment. He questions the "need to assess and analyze what is really a perfectly sufficient language in itself."
This is a work that operates on multiple levels. Locations change from Hollywood, to Oxford, the Nile. Time shifts. In the cool and undemonstrative class-ridden Oxford of mid-twentieth century, Anthony and Jane have a marriage of minds. But Fowles later contrasts this dried-up academic life with the two working-class sisters who are fully alive. Jane responds to crisis with withdrawal into a private world, shutting down parts of herself. The book is replete with symbols. It's a book that gets better with time.
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Daniel Martin's (1977) eponymous protagonist returns to England after a sojourn in Hollywood -- and sets out to rectify the sins and omissions of his past.Literature & Fiction Books
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