Word: dreaminessâ
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...last story, The Cloud, possesses one of Fowles' faults?a facile, painterly dreaminess???without his vigorous grasp on the facts that make illusion matter. Fowles' themes in all these elegant stories are the surprise of passion v. the safety of tradition, abstraction v. spontaneity, and more broadly, the secrets of art (including Fowles' own art) played against a fictive "reality" that represents merely his own deeper lamination of imagined life. Fowles, like any other storyteller, tells his tale?and then has the shimmering perversity to let his readers know that maybe he was lying all the time, or that life...
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