His Own Peak
Ian Sansom: John Fowles’s diary, 6 May 2004
John Fowles: The Journals, Vol. I
edited by Charles Drazin.
Cape, 668 pp., £30, October 2003,9780224069113 Show More
edited by Charles Drazin.
Cape, 668 pp., £30, October 2003,
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
by Eileen Warburton.
Cape, 510 pp., £25, April 2004,0 224 05951 3 Show More
by Eileen Warburton.
Cape, 510 pp., £25, April 2004,
“... the littleness of all the little people. Fowles’s great fear, according to his new biographer, Eileen Warburton, is ‘the oblivion of ordinariness’. As early as December 1949 he confides to himself, and to posterity: ‘In the intellectual and aesthetic sense, I have developed out of the rest, yet I have to try and conceal that in order to make ... ”
