Mantissa

John Fowles — one of the most outstanding (and deservedly popular) British writers of the twentieth century, a contemporary classic of the highest caliber, author of the worldwide bestsellers «The Collector» and «The Magus», «The French Lieutenant's Woman» and «The Ebony Tower».
In each of his works, unlike the previous one, Fowles nevertheless always remains himself — romantic and mysterious, shocking yet alluring with its unbridled eroticism. «Mantissa» is a novel about a novel, a resonant echo of what has been written and only faintly discernible sounds of what is yet to be written...

And the main character — a writer, a creator whose sensual imagination creates a special world; in it, passions rage, from which he himself cannot escape.