FOWLES (John).
Wormholes. Essays and Occasional Writings.
A perfect copy, from the author’s own library, of the most limited and luxurious issue of this important anthology of prose writing on literature, autobiography and nature.
The preface includes the vigorous statement, almost amounting to a manifesto, of a “truth about all writers, male or female. They are professionally, often foolishly and blindly, egocentric. Somewhere, it may be deep down, they all believe that no one can - or could - write so well as they. The vanity of this self-belief is really what distinguishes and specifies our kind … it is a condition shared by all artists; a kind of clinging, in the savage typhoon of existence … to the one spar that promises to float.”
