TABLE OF CONTENTS
By the same author
Foreword
Brave New Novel – Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
A Handbook of Despair – George Orwell (1903-1950)
The Self-Indulgent Novelist – Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
The Rescuer of the Story – Graham Greene (1904-1991)
The Clockwork Novel – Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
The Uncomfortable Novelist – Doris Lessing (born 1919)
A Restlessly Reticent Poet – Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Fowles Outbids Fowles – John Fowles (1926-2005)
Blank Despair of Words – Alan Brownjohn (born 1931)
Interview with Alan Brownjohn
At the Gates of Commonsense – Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000)
The Self-Consuming Dystopia of Age – Alasdair Gray (born 1934)
A Desperado of Simplicity – David Lodge (born 1935)
The Down Syndrome of Emotional Fiction – Julian Barnes (born 1946)
The Desperado of Sensibility Laid Bare – Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
The Novel to Rent – Martin Amis (born 1949)
The Disappointed and Disappointing Memory-Land Reclaimer – Graham Swift (born 1949)
Irony and the Compulsion of Reading Morally – Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954)
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