![]() ![]() This novel also made me think that this is what Beauty and the Beast would really look like in real life (perhaps another topic altogether).Ĭlegg is somewhat scarier than the other men in the novels mentioned above because he doesn’t have sex with his prisoner. ![]() There is a thread running through these works, worthy of a closer look. It’s easy to compare this with Lolita, which I will hold off on because I will write a proper analysis comparing Clegg to Humbert, Jean-Baptise Grenouille from Suskind’s Perfume, and to the main character in John Burnside’s The Dumb House. ![]() After he stalks her for a while, he decides to buy a cottage in the middle of nowhere preparing everything for her ‘arrival.’ One day he chlorophorms her and actually carries out his fantasy, keeping her a prisoner. He develops an obsession for a young, blonde, beautiful, 20 year-old art student named Miranda. He is socially strange, and loves to collect butterflies. The Collector by John Fowles is about a man named Frederick Clegg, a lonesome person who recently wins the lottery. ![]()
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