Wormholes
Subtitle: essays and occasional writings
By: John Fowles ; edited and introduced by Jan Relf
Contributors: Relf, Jan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780805058673
Subjects: Authorship; Literature; History and criticism
Description: Divided into four sections--Writing and the Self, Culture and Society, Literature and Literary Criticism, and Nature and the Nature of Nature--"Wormholes" contains 30 pieces, dating from 1963 to the present, which reflect on Fowles' views on the art of fiction and on the relationship of literature to life.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jan Relf; title: I. Autobiographical: Writing and the Self. I Write Therefore I Am (1964). Notes on an Unfinished Novel (1969). Foreword to the Poems (1973). Of Memoirs and Magpies (1983/1994). The Filming of The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). A Modern Writer's France (1988). Behind The Magus (1994). The J. R. Fowles Club (1995). Greece (1996). The John Fowles Symposium, Lyme Regis, July 1966 (1997); title: II. Culture and Society. On Being English but Not British (1964). Gather Ye Starlets (1965). The Falklands and a Death Foretold (1982); title: III. Literature and Literary Criticism. My Recollections of Kafka (1970). Conan Doyle (1974). Hardy and the Hag (1977). "Eliduc" and the Lais of Marie de France (1974/78). Moliere's Dom Juan (1981). Ebenezer Le Page (1981). John Aubrey and the Genesis of the Monumenta Britannica (1982). Golding and "Golding" (1986). The Lost Domaine of Alain-Fournier (1986). Thomas Hardy's England (1984). The Man Who Died: A Commentary (1992); title: IV. Nature and the Nature of Nature. Weeds, Bugs, Americans (1970). The Blinded Eye (1971). Shipwreck (1975). Islands (1978). Land (1985). Collectors' Items: Introduction (1996). The Nature of Nature (1995); title: V. An Interview. An Unholy Inquisition: John Fowles and Dianne Vipond (1995).