1. John Fowles, The Ebony Tower (1974; rpt. London: Cape), p. 117.
2. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Poésies Complètes de Sainte-Beuve (Paris: G. Charpentier, 1840), p. 332.
3. Paulette Michel-Michot, ‘Fowles’s “Poor Koko”: a Metaphor of the Quest’, in Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek, Pierre Michel and Paulette Michel-Michot (Liège: Université de Liège, 1987), p. 206.
4. For a fuller definition of ‘metafiction’, see Patricia Waugh, Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Methuen, 1984).
5. John Fowles, The Aristos (rev. ed. London: Triad, 1986), p. 27.