约翰·福尔斯是享誉世界文坛的英国作家。在长达40多年的写作生涯中,他创作了多部畅销小说,但最为批评家和读者称道的还是1969年发表的代表作《法国中尉的女人》。这部小说被誉为20世纪世界文学最优秀的作品之一。福尔斯作为后现代主义作家,他所创作的多部小说具有明显的后现代主义特点。小说作者会有意地告诉读者:小说完全是由作者杜撰而来,故事纯属虚构,小说为读者构建的是一个虚拟世界。小说《法国中尉的女人》淋漓尽致地体现了这一特 John Fowles is a British writer who enjoys a world-wide reputation. During his more than 40 years of writing career, he has authored several bestselling novels, but most critics and readers commended the 1969 masterpiece “French Lieutenant Woman”. Known as one of the finest works of world literature in the twentieth century. As a writer of postmodernism, Fowles wrote many novels with obvious characteristics of postmodernism. The author of the novel intentionally tells the reader: The novel is entirely fabricated by the author, the story is purely fictional, and the novel builds a virtual world for the reader. The novel “French lieutenant woman” vividly embodies this special