“A MODERN WRITER’S FRANCE” BY JOHN FOWLES, OR SOMETHIG ABOUT THE NATURE OF A AUTHOR’S CREATIVE WORK

Abstract

The article touches upon the issues of sources of literary inspiration on the example of the essay of the modern English writer John Fowles “A Modern Writer’s France”, as well as the problems of the cross-cultural space of literature and culture of England and France – countries that are close in geographical and historical connotations. The special emphasis is made on how the French realities evoked in Fowles’ writer’s imagination the insights that “sprouted” in the themes and images of the works of the English prose writer. At the same time, private observations of the work of the English prose writer and poet also concern universal categories associated with writing, namely, the artist’s intuition, which is a vague comprehension of Oneself and of things in the process of cognition through connection or through coherence, which is born in the spiritual unconscious and which bears fruit only in creativity.