Daniel Martin (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Fowles
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical
- Time of Work: The mid-1970’s, with flashbacks through the 1940’s
- Setting: Hollywood, England, Egypt, and Syria
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Love or romance, Self, Literature, 1930’s, England or English people, Idealism, Egypt or Egyptians, Drama or dramatists, Hollywood, Work or workers, Middle East, Nostalgia
- Locales: Egypt, Hollywood, CA, Syria
Characters Discussed
Daniel (Dan) Martin, a British playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter. Dan is a forty-five-year-old man in emotional and artistic exile. Reared as a vicar’s son in Devon and educated at the University of Oxford, Dan is a comfortable atheist, a tentative socialist, and a skilled dialogue technician. He sees life through the distorting and limiting eyes of a filmmaker, objectifying or reinventing reality to fit his needs. Accordingly, he can be quick and clever (and often evasive and patronizing) in real emotional situations; after a failed marriage, he...
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