In John Fowles' 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', the narrator famously interrupts the story to do what?
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Correct answer: He reflects on the challenge of controlling his own characters as a modern novelist
Fowles uses a metafictional intervention in Chapter 13 to explain that he is not a 'god-like' Victorian narrator but a modern writer who cannot fully control his creations. This highlights the postmodern shift in narrative authority.
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