The Journals Volume 1: Volume 2: 1966-1990 - Softcover

9780810125155: The Journals Volume 1: Volume 2: 1966-1990
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John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, "The Collector," but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include "The Maggot," "The French Lieutenant's Woman," and "The Ebony Tower," is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth century.The first volume begins in 1949 with Fowles' final year at Oxford. It reveals his intellectual maturation, chronicling his experiences as a university lecturer in France and as a schoolteacher on the Greek island of Spetsai. Simultaneously candid and eloquent, Fowles' journals also expose the deep connection between his personal and scholarly lives as Fowles struggled to win literary acclaim. From his affair with Elizabeth, the married woman who would become his first wife, to his passion for film, ornithology, travel, and book collecting, the journals present a portrait of a man eager to experience life.The second and final volume opens in 1966, as Fowles, already an international success, navigates his newfound fame and wealth. With absolute honesty, his journals map his inner turmoil over his growing celebrity and his hesitance to take on the role of a public figure. Fowles recounts his move from London to a secluded house on England's Dorset coast, where discontented with society's voracious materialism he led an increasingly isolated life.Great works in their own right, Fowles' journals elucidate the private thoughts that gave rise to some of the greatest writing of our time."

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"The book is gripping, and one can't help feeling that Fowles was writing-with a dogged passion, and almost inadvertently-what may come to be seen as one of the very best of his works."-"Literary Review"
"This is the first instalment of Mr Fowles's journals. As in his novels, almost every sentence has life. Bring on volume two."-"The Economist"
"[Fowles] has interesting views about other authors, can vividly evoke those he meets, and explain truthfully what he feels about them, and himself . . . He has a magnificent narrative gift."-"The Independent"
"Fowles's reputation has waned in recent years. These extraordinary diaries, 'this portrait of the total living artist', which he calls 'the last novel I have to write', should help bring about his richly deserved resuscitation."-"The Spectator"
"John Fowles wrote: 'Reading back through old diaries. Fantastic outbursts of priggishness, of vanity, of expectations. The temptation is to suppress such blemishes. But that defeats the diary.' In this respect the diary remains triumphantly undefeated . . . [Fowles's] intellectual perseverence and artistic integrity remain stubbornly impressive to the end."-"The Observer"

"Journal writing is just as compelling to Fowles as fiction, and his readers will feel the same, given Fowles' uncanny vigor, candor and discernment."---"Booklist," starred review""

"Fowles is preeminently, of course, one of the most accomplished English novelists of the last half-century, and this glimpse into his education and work is a pleasure."--"Kirkus Reviews"

"Fowles is preeminently, of course, one of the most accomplished English novelists of the last half-century, and this glimpse into his education and work is a pleasure."--"Kirkus Reviews"

"Journal writing is just as compelling to Fowles as fiction, and his readers will feel the same, given Fowles' uncanny vigor, candor and discernment."---"Booklist," starred review""

"This second and vinal volume takes Fowles through the years in which he published such major works as"The French Lieutenant's Woman." . . and"A Maggot." . . The contents are engrossing, evocative, revealing, and candid."
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A major literary landmark: the second volume of one of the most extraordinary journals of our time.

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