Which author's 'Fabyulosity' and use of alternative endings in 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' make it a key postmodern text?
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Correct answer: John Fowles
Fowles' novel parodies the Victorian romance while providing three different endings. By doing so, he exposes the arbitrary nature of narrative authority and the conventions of the 19th-century novel.
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