Re: JCO: John Fowles on JCO

“Of the many excellent writers in England today, four strike me as especially exciting because they are struggling to express, in widely differing bodies of work, our crucial contemporary problem: how to get into the future, how to emerge from a condition of confusion, despair, nihilism, how to create values that will allow man to evolve into a higher form of man. While their contemporaries in England and, sadly, all to frequently in America, are content to joke about the past or the future, in works of art that are often technically brilliant but morally quite played-out, John Fowles, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, and Colin Wilson are consciously attempting to imagine a new image for man, a new Self-Image freed of ambiguity, irony, and the self-conscious narrowness of the imagination we have inherited from 19th-century Romanticism.”  JCO 1974

Randy

On Nov 12, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Gary Couzens wrote:

Following John Fowles's death earlier this week, the Guardian has today published some extracts from his journals, Volume 2 of which is due to be published in January.

On 27 July 1972, he met JCO...

"Tom Maschler said 'God help you' when we told him she was coming and we had expected some imperious, devouring wordwoman; instead we got someone painfully diffident and over-conscious of the literary pecking-order (I rank higher, it seems). I have tried but cannot read her books - they are so long and screwed up to too high a pitch. Curious that such a frail, shy creature should be so different in her art. I rather like her."

Gary 

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