The Tree

by JohnFowles (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $13.55

  In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, John Fowles explains the impact of nature on his life and the dangers inherent in our traditional urge to categorise, to tame and ultimately to possess the landscape. This acquisitive drive leads to alienation and an antagonism to the apparent disorder and randomness of the natural world. For John Fowles the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive. This fascinating text gives a unique insight into the author and offers the key to a true understanding of the inspiration for his work.

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $12.38

  John Fowles takes the tree and the forest as the best analogues of prose fiction, symbolizing the green man or the wild part of our psyche from which the artistic impulse is born. He explains the impact of nature on his own life and warns civilized man of the deeper and more subtle dangers that attend his traditional rejection of the wild and the chaos it has come to represent. The author also wrote The Collector , The Aristos , The Magus , The French Lieutenant's Woman , The Ebony Tower , Daniel Martin and Maggot .