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THE COLLECTOR David Jarman examines John Fowles’ first novel, set just outside Lewes “I’m going to spend, spend, spend,” was Yorkshire housewife Viv Nicholson’s famous reply when asked what she planned to do with her £151,319 pools win in 1961. And spend she did, notching up, like the Wife of Bath, five husbands along the way. Frederick Clegg’s pools win in John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, The Collector, is a more modest £73,091. Quite enough, though, to buy a van and an old cottage in the Sussex countryside – advertised in a Sunday paper as being ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ – which comes equipped with extensive cellars ideal for incarcerating the young art student Clegg intends to abduct. Where is this cottage? The clues provided seem to contradict each other. The advertisement says that it is two miles from the nearest village. The estate agent who shows Clegg round has driven out from Lewes. One theory advanced concerning the original purpose of the cellars is that smugglers travelling from Newhaven to London used them for storing contraband, and there is said to be a fine view from the south-facing cottage, presumably towards the sea. This all suggests that we are south of Lewes. Elsewhere, however, we are told that the sea is ten miles distant. The clearest descriptive detail Fowles provides is that ‘to the East there are woods both sides of the road running up the valley towards Lewes’ but, consulting a map, I don’t find this any help in pinpointing the cottage’s location. Anyway Lewes is sufficiently close by that Clegg, spurning the blandishments of the village traders, can do all his shopping there. And the Lewes of The Collector seems very well served by specialist shops. Eclectic needs such as fine art books and half bottles of champagne are easily accommodated. It is only the search for a dress with very demanding specifications that necessitates a visit to Brighton, but this, of course, was Lewes pre-Capriccio and Susanne Wolf. The total absence of topographical detail suggests that Fowles chose Lewes as his setting entirely arbitrarily, but how delightfully archaic his Lewes is. To give just one example: Clegg’s victim, Miranda, falls ill, and Clegg, fearing detection, ignores her increasingly frantic pleas for medical attention. Eventually panicking, Clegg drives into Lewes at dead of night in order to summon aid. Parked outside the doctor’s house while he plucks up courage, Clegg is moved on by a patrolling bobby. At 1.30 in the morning! Happy days! The Collector was an immense critical and popular success, made into a film starring Terence Stamp within two years of publication. But its disappointments as a ‘Lewes novel’ aside, I found it badly written and thoroughly unpleasant. The protagonist is entirely lacking in redeeming features. Rather pretentiously, Fowles has Miranda variously identify Clegg with Caliban, Arthur Seaton in Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and Mr Elton in Austen’s Emma. A toxic mix indeed, but not one to deter three notorious serial killers citing The Collector as an inspiration. It’s butterflies that Clegg collects, if you’re wondering, but girls may become his consuming passion. Certainly one fears for the girl Clegg spots at a zebra crossing in Lewes at the end of the book, and tracks down to behind the sweet counter at Woolworths. V W W W. V I V A L E W E S . C O M L I t E r A r y L E W E S 5 7
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