by John Fowles · ISBN 9782253054801
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«La créature» is the historical novel by John Fowles, published by Le Livre de poche in paperback (592 pages, in French).
In 1736, a young woman arrives at an inn with some travelers, and their servant is found hanged with violets in his mouth. Fowles turns the event into an investigation in which a scandal of manners drifts towards mysticism and supposed satanic mysteries in the midst of the Enlightenment, with Louise, a prostitute turned prophetess, as the central figure.
The work was originally published in English as «A Maggot» in 1985; this French edition, translated by Annie Saumont, is number 6880 in the Le Livre de poche series.
For readers of historical and mystery fiction who appreciate an eighteenth-century setting, supernatural overtones, and the narrative of John Fowles.
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
