INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY AND "VAGRANT STORY" ON THE WORLDVIEW OF KLEGG IN JOHN FOWLES NOVEL "COLLECTOR"

The article is devoted to study the mythological foundations of the novel by John Fowles "The Collector" associated with the use of the author of "stray subjects." The sources of these stories are ancient myths and works of European literature from different centuries. The use them due to the need to emphasize the indissoluble unity of the main characters of the novel. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the mythological worldview of Frederick Clegg, the main character of the novel. Revealed the combination of Platonic and manic and romantic and Philistine against Clegg to the heroine of the novel Miranda associated with the paired categories of "beautiful – ugly". The story reveals the paradoxical situation in which the ideal of Clegg, which is the heroine of the novel, destroying it in the idealistic sense of self