1. John Fowles, The Aristos (1964; rev. ed., London: Triad Grafton, 1981).
2. See Susana Onega, ‘Art, Nature and Whole Sight in John Fowles’ The Collector and “The Ebony Tower”’, in Literature and the Visual Arts, ed. Daniela Carpi (Re Enzo Editrice: Bologna, 2001), pp. 161–81.
3. Susana Onega, ‘Fowles on Fowles’, in Form and Meaning in the Novels of John Fowles (1986; Ann Arbor/London: UMI Research Press, 1989), pp. 175–90, pp. 180–1.
4. James Acheson, John Fowles (New York: St. Martin’s Press [Modern Novelists Series], 1998), p. 64.
5. Georges Bataille, La littérature et le mal (Paris: Gallimard, 1957), p. 14.