The Journals, Volume 1 - Softcover

Fowles, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099443422 ISBN 13: 9780099443421

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2004

Synopsis

In 1963 John Fowles won international recognition with his first published novel The Collector. But his roots as a serious writer can be traced back long before to the journal he began as a student at Oxford in the late 1940s and continued to keep faithfully over the next half century. Written with an unsparing honesty and forthrightness, it reveals the inner thoughts and creative development of one of the twentieth century's most innovative and important novelists.

This first-hand account of the road to fame and fortune holds the reader's attention with all the narrative power of the novels, but also offers an invaluable insight into the intimate relationship between Fowles's own life and his fiction.

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Review:

"His intellectual perseverance and artistic integrity... remain impressive to the end" (Observer)

"He is sharp when speaking about his own fiction, and the section dealing with The Collector will no doubt be required reading for all students of Fowles" (Scotland on Sunday)

"This journal is fascinating, full of stimulating thoughts about aesthetics, national identity and the changing function of literature in post-war Europe" (Daily Telegraph)

"Fans of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman are in for a treat" (Time Out)

"Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

'The book is gripping, and one can't help feeling that Fowles was writing what may come to be seen as one of the very best of his works' - Literary Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099443422
• ISBN 13: 9780099443421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704
• Editor: Drazin Charles