The Spectator, October 25th, 2003
From chrysalis to butterfly THE JOURNALS: VOLUME I by John Fowles Cape, L30, pp. 668, ISBN 022406911X John Fowles's diaries - or 'disjoints', as he calls them - are evidence of his own theory that while some writers have a genius for a specific genre, others 'have merely a universal mind'. 'I'm a mind-writer ... I feel master of none, yet at home in all,' he wrote in 1954, about halfway through this first volume which runs from his student days in 1949 until 1965. And why not present all one's work - if one is a mind-writer (much more occupied with ideas than with words) - as it comes out; i...
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