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J.G. Farrell in His Own Words - Selected Letters and Diaries (Hardcover)
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J.G. Farrell in His Own Words - Selected Letters and Diaries (Hardcover)
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The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was
drowned on August 11 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden
storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early
forties. Had he lived to write more, assessed the "Daily Telegraph"
obituary at the time, 'he might well have been regarded as the
greatest historical novelist of his generation'. Thirty years on,
with a new and younger readership, that accolade rings true. "The
Siege of Krishnapur", the second of Farrell's "Empire Trilogy", won
the Booker Prize in 1973, and it was selected as one of only six
previous winners to compete in the 2008 international 'Best of
Booker' competition. The strength of American interest in Farrell's
books is underlined by the inclusion of all three Trilogy novels in
the Classics imprint of the "New York Review of Books". Many of
these collected letters are written to women whom Jim Farrell loved
and whom he inadvertently hurt. His ambition to be a great writer
in an age of minimal author's earnings ruled out the expense of
marriage and fatherhood, because for an unconventional novelist he
had remarkably conventional standards. Self-sufficiency was his
answer. Books Ireland has astutely portrayed him as 'a mystery
wrapped in an enigma, a man who wanted solitude and yet did not
want it, wanted love but feared commitment, reached out again and
again but, possibly through fear of rejection, was always the first
to cut the cord'. But Farrell's kindness, deft humour and gift for
friendship reached across rejection, which must account for why so
many such letters were kept. Funny, teasing, anxious and ambitious,
these previously unpublished letters give the reader a glimpse of
this private man.
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