Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2002. Vol. 3. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 29)

Tibor Tóth: Fiction as the 'River Between': Daniel Martin

56 TIBOR TÓTH nation of the childish from the childlike, both in the language and in the conception.

2 In the following short quotation John Fowles warns against 'archetypal fear' that illusions reflected in images which are perceivable through the senses become static and destroy the mobility characteristic of creative perception. Novelists have an almost archetypal fear that illustration will overstamp text, or more precisely that their readers' imaginations (which play a vitally creative part in the total experience of a book) will be pinned down and manacled by a set of specific images. This began long before the cinema, of course.

3 Robert Huffakker states that in John Fowles's concept the artist might occasionally conquer time and thus achieve a status, which is superior to its rival arts. When writing about Daniel Martin he reaches relevant conclusions, which serve as starting points for our expertise in the present essay. The all-wise Herr Professor whom Dan and Jane meet cruising the Nile tells of feeling, as he concentrated upon an artefact, that he became "the river between"

—that he somehow sensed the artist's living presence, beyond time, of the ghosts of his past.* Robert Huffaker also states that for Fowles, man's triumph over time and "the tyranny of the stupid" is his native freedom

—particularly the freedom to express the depth and breadth of his own feelings. Robert Huffaker also writes that freedom came to be expressed in a number of ways which otherwise could be interpreted as examples of enslavement or tyranny. 2 Fowles,. John. 1977. "Hardy and the Hag" In Wormhotes, 140-41. London: Jonathan Cape, 1999. 3 Fowles, |ohn. 1981. "The Filming of The French Lieutenant's Woman" In Wormhotes, 34-42. London: Jonathan Cape, 1999, 40. 4 Huffaker, Robert. 1980

. John Fowles. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 42.