Lives in Writing (29 page)

Barthes, Roland 125, 145, 192

Bates, Alan 122

Bayley, John 129

Beckett, Samuel 46, 115

Beevor, Antony 233, 234, 235, 238, 242

Bennett, Alan 77–94, 249

Bergonzi, Bernard 154

Bigsby, Christopher 181, 182

Björk, Anita 7, 8

Blackmur, R.P. 35

Blair, Tony 195, 204

Blake, George 114

Bland, Edith
see
Nesbit, Edith

Bland, Hubert 223, 227, 242–4, 245, 246, 249, 250, 251, 252

Bland, Rosamund 227, 232, 244–5, 249–53

Bloom, Harold 163

Boorman, George 68

Boorman, Ivy 68, 69, 70

Boorman, John 66–76

Bourke, Sean 114

Bradbury, Dominic 166

Bradbury, Elizabeth 166, 170, 173, 174, 178, 191

Bradbury, Malcolm 165–93

Bradbury, Matthew 174, 179

Bradford, Richard 48–9

Brennan, Maeve 34

Briggs, Julia 224, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 251–2, 253

Bright, Laurence 129

Brockbank, Philip 162

Brontë sisters 202–3, 204

Brookner, Anita 186

Budberg, Baroness Moura 227–8, 232, 253, 254–6

Burroughs, William 156

Bush, George W. 144

Byatt, A.S. 224–5

Cage, John 156

Camberg, Bernard (‘Barney’) 54, 55

Camberg, Sarah (‘Cissy’) 54, 55

Cecil, Lord David 33

Charles, Prince 129, 196

Chase, Richard 202, 203, 204

Cloetta, Jacques 10

Cloetta, Yvonne 4–5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18

Coetzee, J.M. 186

Cohen, Paula Marantz 237

Columbus, Christopher 215

Compton-Burnett, Ivy 51, 58

Conquest, Robert 38, 48

Conrad, Joseph 7, 50, 51, 148, 157, 237

Cornwell, John 17, 18

Coward, Noel 11

Cromwell, Thomas 233, 241

Culler, Jonathan 126

Dalai Lama 102, 105

Daniel, Yuli 14

Davis, Anne 83–4, 85

Dawkins, Richard 147, 148–9, 150–1, 206

de la Mare, Walter 105

de Man, Paul 126

Dennett, Daniel 206

Deresiewicz, William 142n

Derrida, Jacques 125, 133, 138, 141, 163

Descartes, René 190

Diana, Princess of Wales 194–209

Dickens, Charles 238

Dickey, James 73–4

Diderot, Denis 189–91

Du Maurier, George 189, 224

Duchamp, Marcel 156

Duckett, Jim 169, 177

Duran, Fr Leopoldo 18

Eagleton, Terry 125–52

Eliot, T.S. 2–3, 23, 60, 67, 98, 109

Ellis, Alice Thomas 51

Empson, William 136

Euripides 148

Fayed, Dodi 199, 203, 205

Forster, E.M. 164

Foucault, Michel 125, 128

Fowles, John 189

Freud, Sigmund 125, 237

Frey, James 236, 237

Fry, Stephen 114, 115

Frye, Northrop 163

Fukuyama, Francis 143

Fussell, Betty 36

Gaitskell, Hugh 16

Galileo 215

Games, Alexander 82, 84

George VI, King 233

Gibson, Alfred 238

Glendinning, Victoria 218

Glenville, Peter 12

Gorbachev, Mikhail 15

Gorky, Maxim 227, 253, 255

Graves, Robert 11, 37

Gray, Beryl 119–20

Gray, John 254

Gray, Piers 113

Gray, Simon 107–24, 236

Gray, Victoria 108, 119–20, 123

Green, Henry 164

Greene, Graham 1–21, 51, 52, 60, 61, 95–106, 175

Greene, Vivien 7, 8

Hall, H. John 217, 218

Hamilton, Ian 110, 122

Harrison, John 169, 177

Harrison, Tony 17

Hartman, Geoffrey 126

Hazzard, Shirley 4, 5–6, 12

Hensher, Philip 118

Hitchens, Christopher 147, 148, 149

Hoatson, Alice 227, 244

Hoggart, Richard 162, 172–3, 180

Holloway, John 154

Homer 66, 234

Hopkins, Gerard Manley 208

Hough, Graham 162

Howard, Elizabeth Jane 30, 37–9, 43, 44

Hunt, Violet 227

Hussein, Saddam 93

Iyer, Hiroko 104, 105

Iyer, Pico 95–106, 95n

Iyer, Raghavan N. 100, 105

Jackson, Peter 73

Jacobs, Eric 26, 43

Jacques, Martin 204

James, Alice 237

James, Henry ix–x, 39, 50, 51, 138, 168, 189, 214, 223, 224, 230, 231, 232–3, 237, 249

James, Oliver 203

James, William 102, 237

Jameson, Frederic 126

Jardine, Penelope 63

Johnson, Barbara 126

Jones, Monica 46, 47, 48

Joseph, Michael 33

Joyce, James 23, 51, 66, 127, 128, 157, 186, 235

Kael, Pauline 75

Kafka, Franz 157

Kennedy, John F. 61, 170

Kermode, Frank 52, 61, 64, 127, 128, 135, 153–64

Kierkegaard, Søren 122, 140

Kilmarnock, Alastair 39

Kingsley, Charles 28

Lacan, Jacques 125

Larkin, Philip 23, 25, 27, 28, 29–30, 31, 32, 33–5, 43, 46, 47–9, 119, 168, 172

Lawrence, D.H. 156, 162, 164

Leader, Zachary 22–3, 26–7, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37

Leavis, F.R. 37, 109, 138, 163

Lentricchia, Frank 128

Lessing, Doris 58

Lévi-Strauss, Claude 125

Lodge, Mary 166, 173, 174, 175, 178, 195

Lodge, Stephen 174, 175

Lundkvist, Arthur 19

MacCabe, Colin 127, 128

Macherey, Pierre 130

Madox Ford, Ford 50

Malory, Thomas 67

Mantel, Hilary 51, 233, 241–2

Marvin, Lee 72, 73

Marx, Karl/Marxism 31, 125, 128, 130, 137–8, 140, 204

Matthews, Ronald 9

Mayall, Rik 114

McCabe, Herbert 129–30, 140–1, 150

McDonnell, Vincent 19, 20

McEwan, Ian 181, 192–3

McGuire, Fr John 70–1

McKellen, Ian 83

Mehta, Nandini Nanak 100

Mensonge, Henri 188

Meyer, Michael 8

Miller, J. Hillis 126

Moore, Brian 192

Mullen, Richard 212

Murdoch, Iris 31

Murdoch, Rupert 91, 187

Nabokov, Vladimir 20, 171

Nesbit, Edith (married name: Edith Bland) 223, 224, 225, 227, 231, 242–4, 245, 246, 247, 249, 251, 252

Nichols, Peter 72

Niven, Frances 55

Nowottny, Winifred 153

Ockrent, Mike 197

Orwell, George 226

Ozick, Cynthia 237

Paul, Henri 205

Philby, Kim 14, 15

Pinochet, General 15

Pinter, Harold 111, 112, 120, 122, 122n

Plato 226

Pound, Ezra 23

Powys, John Cooper 67

Pugh, Patricia 252

Reeves, Amber 227, 232, 251, 252

Richards, I.A. 135, 138

Richardson, Dorothy 227

Richardson, Samuel 235

Roe, Thomas 11–12, 13

Rosenthal, Tom 184, 185, 188

Rushdie, Salman 185

Said, Edward 126

Saussure, Ferdinand de 125

Schiff, Stephen 83

Scott, Sir Walter 56, 235

Shakespeare, William 35, 130, 153, 162, 164, 217, 234

Sharpe, Tom 189

Shaw, George Bernard 229n, 250

Sherrin, Ned 177

Sherry, Norman 1–2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14–18, 19, 20–1, 104

Shields, David 235–7

Sinyavsky, Andrei 14

Skidelsky, William 233, 234, 235

Snowdon, Lord 12

Spacks, Barry 170

Spark, Muriel 50–65, 164

Spark, Philip 55

Spark, Robin 58, 64

Spark, Sydney Oswald ‘Ossie’ 57–8

Spencer, Earl 197, 201–2, 205

Spencer, Professor Terence 165, 180

Spivak, Gayatri 126

Stanford, Derek 53, 59, 60

Stannard, Martin 51, 52–3, 54, 55, 57, 60–1, 62, 63, 64

Sterne, Laurence 117, 190

Stonegate, Captain 159

Stoppard, Tom 72

Sutherland, John 212

Swift, Jonathan 219

Ternan, Nellie 238

Thatcher, Margaret 16, 67, 204

Thomas, Rupert 85

Thwaite, Anthony 27, 35n, 46

Tóibín, Colm 223, 224, 225, 237

Torrijos, General Omar 15

Trilling, Lionel 138

Trollope, Anthony 146, 210–22

Trollope, Harry 211

Trollope, Fred 213

Trollope, Tom 218

Turner, David 176, 177

Voltaire 190

von Arnim, Elizabeth 227

Vonnegut, Kurt 220–1, 236

Walston, Catherine 3–4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 19

Walston, Harry 3, 10–11

Watson, Graham 184

Watt, Ian 162

Waugh, Evelyn 22, 51, 52, 53, 60, 61, 135, 159, 176, 183

Webb, Beatrice 229n

Webb, Sidney 229n

Weil, Simone 156

Weldon, Fay 51

Wells, Gip 230, 253–4

Wells, H.G. x, 190, 223–56

Wells, Jane 227, 232, 243, 247, 248, 250–1, 252–3

West, Anthony 227, 231, 248, 253–4, 255

West, Rebecca 227, 230, 231, 232, 235–6

Weston, Jessie 67

Wharton, Edith 168

Whitehouse, Mary 176

Wilkomirski, Binjamin 236

Williams, Raymond 129, 162, 163

Wilson, Angus 181, 185

Wilson, Bryan 176

Wilson, Edmund 22

Wilson, Harold 178

Wimsatt, W.K. 135, 154

Wood, Charles 72

Woolf, Virginia 23, 50

Wordsworth, William 158

Yeats, W.B. 164

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny 40, 45

Yoder, Edwin 237

All but one of these essays have been published before, sometimes under a different title, but most of them have been substantially revised and extended for this book, and in some cases are conflations of pieces originally published separately. ‘The Late Graham Greene’, ‘The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Kingsley Amis’, ‘A Tricky Undertaking: the Biography of Muriel Spark’, ‘Alan Bennett’s Serial Autobiography’, ‘The Greene Man Within’ and ‘Terry Eagleton’s Goodbye to All That’ were originally published in the
New York Review of Books.
The essay on Amis incorporates an introduction to his novel
One Fat Englishman
published by Penguin in 2011. ‘John Boorman’s Quest’ was originally published in the
Times Literary Supplement.
‘Simon Gray’s Diaries’, an extended version of an article which appeared first in the
Guardian Review,
was published in the
Critical Quarterly.
‘Frank Remembered – by a Kermodian’ combines a contribution to
There Are Kermodians,
edited by Anthony Holden and Ursula Owen, presented to Frank Kermode in 1999 on his 80th birthday, with a review previously published in the
New York Review of Books,
and was first published in this form in the
Critical Quarterly.
‘Malcolm Bradbury: Writer and Friend’ is a new essay which incorporates parts of several occasional pieces I have written about him since his death. The publication history of ‘The Death of Diana’ is explained in the prefatory note. ‘Trollope’s Fixed Period’ and ‘Writing H.G. Wells’ are extended versions of articles that first appeared in the
Guardian Review.
I am grateful to the editors of these publications who commissioned the essays in their original form, or were receptive to my proposals to write them.

I am grateful to my agent Jonny Geller for his encouragement of the project; to my editor, Geoff Mulligan, for numerous suggested improvements of the text; to Jane Smiley for first drawing my attention to Trollope’s
The Fixed Period
; to ‘AggieH’ for permission to include her contribution to the
Guardian
website about the theme of Trollope’s novel; and as always to my wife Mary, for her comments on various drafts of these essays.

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