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by John Fowles (Author), Charles Drazin (Editor, Introduction)
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  • Hardcover: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (2 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 022406911X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224069113
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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A major literary landmark: the first volume of one of the most extraordinary journals of our time 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. Commencing with his final year at Oxford, this first volume chronicles the year he then spent lecturing at a university in France; his experiences as a young school teacher on the Greek island of Spetsai, which would inspire his second novel The Magus; his love affair there with the married woman who would later become his wife; his return to England and the long struggle to achieve literary success. It reveals not only his devotion to Greek and French culture, but also the huge part that a life-long passion for natural history has played in his life and writing. 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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4.0 out of 5 stars A comic masterpiece, 19 Oct 2005
By J. Preece (Newport, South Wales) - See all my reviews
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Make way Mr Pooter! Critics recoiled from the portrait Fowles' journals presented of himself: superior, snotty, whining, and selfish. Alas, they failed to recognise one of the most hilarious books ever written.
The po-faced Fowles out-pooters Mr Pooter on every page. Examples are legion. He hates Leigh-on-Sea, where he was born and brought up. Nothing ever happens there, declares Fowles on frequent visits to his parents, only to return to his London flat where the most exciting thing he does is listen to Journey from Space on the radio or play his recorder.
On the rare evenings Fowles spent with people decent enough to put up with him, Fowles declares that he couldn't be bothered to talk to them since they never took anything seriously. And if they did, they inevitably never understood things with the insight Fowles possesses. He complains that most of his friends drink too much - it doesn't occur to him that they might have been anaesthetising themselves in preparation for an evening with the Fowleses. He hates Britain, but never bothers to leave. There's a hilarious bit where he waxes lyrical about Truffaut films after just having seeing one - and the footnote says that it was in fact directed by Godard.
It provides a fascinating glimpse into Fifties Britain - well, as it was lived by Fowles. The birth of rock and roll and the renaissance of British design, for example, passes Fowles by.
The fact that Fowles hasn't written a decent novel in decades is laid bare: he is utterly insensitive to the feelings of others. Once Fowles had written books based on his own life he had no more ideas left.
I have scarcely enjoyed a book so much. You can't help liking a man so clueless and who wrote a wonderful novel in The Magus (apart from its ending). Just don't invite him to dinner.
A comic masterpiece. I can't wait to read it again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fowles: Brilliant and Disenchanted, 15 Jul 2009
By Index Research (Sussex, UK) - See all my reviews
One must surmise that Mr. Preece is not interested in a serious search for self knowledge which Mr. Fowles sought from 1949 - 1990. In Vol 1, 1 became bogged down during his affair with Elizabeth, whom he then married. However, beginning with chapter 7, 'Married Life in London' (p. 391), the tone changes and the literary and personal criticisms are succinct and superb, as are his observations on world events and travel. Fowles was disenchanted with our material world long before some of us were aware it was destroying us. Fowles is keen observer and lover of nature, and this beautifully informs his journals. Lyme Regis was never so alive in his famous book and film, The French Lieutenant's Woman (described in Vol. 2). Fowles was an admirer of another Dorset writer, Thomas Hardy, whom his work resembles in its brevity and clarity. If you liked The Life of Graham Green (3 vols) by Norman Sherry, you will also like Charles Drazin's editing of John Fowles Journals (2 vols). (Vol. 2 is 5 *****) I feel that every word Fowles ever wrote should be published.
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