Page 8-Sunday, October 30, 1977-The Michigan Daily The Michigan Daily Sunday, rapoport S (Continued from Page 6) insurgency research, Vietnam, CIA- type money at the University that wasn't made public, the whole student involvement issue, the Daily crisis it- self--all those were very clear cut. Sometimes I think it was easier to write; in a sense it was a small town atmosphere. Everybody was tuned in to the same issue . . . now, you don't get the direct impact." His books since Daily days have covered the country's war effort; the medical profession, Las Vegas gam- bling, and California's offerings to con- sumers and tourists. As for the stuff that roused campuses to rebellion, "the gut issues seem to have dwindled a lit- tle bit; they're in shorter supply," Roger reflects. "It's always easy to get disillusioned. A lot of the things you're interested in, you write about hoping that maybe it will make some kind of difference. Nothing happens. When you write for the Mich- igan Daily and you come up with some kind of information, things can change very quickly. When, you're just writing generally, for a national magazine or in a book, a lot of times things just disap- pear without a trace. I mean, sometimes there's interest in what you do, but it just doesn't have the impact." But, for now, Roger says he enjoys what he's doing. Writing has been his orientation since high school, he says. One day, he might like to return to academe and teach college students. In the meantime, though, he's intent on finishing a biography of California's governor, Jerry Brown, a hot political commodity whom the country may just elect president someday. "It's kind of fun to write this book, because a lot of the people who are my age, who came out of the same era, are now getting a chance to put their prin- ciples into practice in government," he obsertes. Far away from the time when "you would publish a story one day and the next day somebody would react, somebody in the legislature, somebody in the University, somebody in a public. relations office, something would hap- buckiolts- (Continued from Page 7) Her Hopwood prize, Claudia recalls, "gave me faith in my talents and especially encouraged my desire to ex- periment in new forms of fiction." She says he enjoyed her years at the University as a history major, and remembers the "intellectual ex- citement of my classes and the books I discovered." And like many of her contem- poraries, Claudia shared in the outrage expressed against the Vietnam War, doing her "share of travelling to Washington to protest." Now living alone in her Cambridge apartment, she is writing a long novel by the same name as her winning Hop- wood entry, a work inspired by her visit to India and Edwin Muir's poem, "The Absent." The novel, which she hopes to complete early next year, relates a "story of love and renunciation" set in pen," muses Roger about his anti- university, anti-conformist, hell-bent- on-change generation. "There's been a lot of disillusion- ment, but a lot of good things are hap- pening, too," he says. "It's tough, you know. It's one thing to preach and do things, it's another thing to really sell them into the political structure. "Talking, to these people (Rapoport, the seasoned reporter, talks to many) you can really see that the idealism is very tough to translate into reality." I think n o w, 'Daniel Martin' " A looking back, it was a lot easier then.' Roger leisurely look back By Jeffrey Selbst DANIEL MARTIN By John Fowles Little, Brown and Co., Boston 629 pp., $12.95 the Indian holy city of Benares, where Claudia lived. When away from pen and paper, Claudia works part-time as a medical assistant. The doctor's office experien- ce, she says, provides her with the op- portunity "to learn about the quirks of human nature, which is helpful for a writer." More important, the job leaves her with -ample time to follow her "natural inclination"-simply put, writing. vidmer (Continued from Page 6) In 1966 Richard completed 117 passes-a record for a Michigan quar- terback. He also holds the record for most yardsin one game. That came in the 1966 season opener-a 41-0 thrashing of Oregon State-when Richard tossed the ball 258 yards and the Wolverines were on their way to a 6- 4 year. Richard sat out half the games in 1967, and Michigan racked up only four victories that season. Despite the lean years, Richard says he has fond memories of his gridiron coach, Bump Elliott. "I thought the world of him, both as a man and as a coach," says Richard, who Elliott recruited out of Green- sburg, Pa. 'We lost a lot more than we should have. '-Richard Richard, a bachelor, says "there wasn't really a plan to do something" in his life. The mijitary draft which collared so many male University graduates in the '60s overlooked Richard, who suffered from asthma. "People had the feeling important things were going on around them," he recalls. In the days of student unrest, the action on the Diag often drew more attention than the action on the football field. OCCASIONALLY, a novel comes along that makes you re-think your standards. Plot, characterization, theme, concept - all are important to a successful piece of work. But what one accepts as enough plot, enough charac- terization- well, I suppose that varies from novel to novel. Once in a while, though, there is- a piece of work so far-ranging in its coverage of the human emotions - one which delves deeply into the psyche and presents a vivid and terribly detailed picture of the inner workingsof its story- that you have to sit back and say, why? Why have I not demanded this much from other writers? Why can they not deliver? Such a book is Daniel Martin, by John Fowles. the story is complex; after that peroration it almost had to be, didn't it? It concerns the life of one Daniel Mar- tin, a displaced Briton. Martin is a dissatisfied Hollywood screenwriter who longs to write seriously; who is divorced from his wife Nell; who is carrying on an affair with a starlet named Jenny McNeil (hmmm- mm); who longs for his native Britain (but very secretly). Martin's ex-wife Nell calls from England; Anthony, one of Martin's closest friends before the divorce, is dying. He had a last wish, that Dan come back to England to see him once more, that they can talk, and Anthony might apologize for having broken up Dan's marriage to Nell. This takes Daniel on a whirlwind journey through the past. ie sees his days at Oxford, cavorting with An- thony, Nell, and her sister Jane (later Anthony's wife); the dusty halls of academe; other images engraved forever on his mind. The day he and Jane rowed lazily down the river, only to find a corpse floating in the weeds. The day, when he was very young, that he saw a rabbit caught in the blades of a reaper, rent limb from limb. N ONE OF THAT-is unique to Fowles. What is superb here is a rich variety both in language and overall texture of the story, and a sense of in- terrelated images and memories con- trolling the action of the present. This becomes almost a fatalistic view, though- not quite. When Daniel, for example, is asked by his ex-wife's sister to return to England, he can only relate her request, mentally, to the time they boated on the river. "Do you remember what you said?" he asks her. "That it 'felt right'?" Jane cannot answer, because she is not so encum- bered by the idea of what-precedes-de- termines-what-follows. The reason many moderns do not in- clude the complexity of character and detail that Daniel Martin includes is that the long narrative (629 pp), highly descriptive and leisurely; went out of style shortly after Thackeray. Discar- See FOWLES, Page 12 Jeffrey Selbst is a former Daily Arts Editor. Fowles Arts Editor. Can technology 'create' ai A new substance, 'Palparium', THE ARTS AND BEYOND VISIONS OF MAN'S AESTHETIC FUTURE Edited By Thomas F. Monteleone Doubleday, $7.95, 205pp. RT IS MAN'S GREATEST vehicle for his per- ceptions, fears, desires, and personal statements. Artists play an extremely important role in our society, as their imagination and creative talents often expand our visions and add insight into our deepest thoughts and emotions. With this premise in mind noted science fiction writer Thomas Monteleone has edited a fine anthology of short stories entitled The Ar- ts And Beyond; Visions Of Man's Aesthetic Future, which features some of the brightest writers in science fiction today. The concerns of the authors in this book are multi- faceted, but deal with several major themes: Will technology alter or expand man's artistic freedom? How will man's artistic visions develop? Will political control over the arts increase in the future? The stories are all of strong quality, yet several stand out, most, notably Ronald Cain's 'Telapathos'. 'Telapathos' is a tale of an artist of the future named Kunst, working with a new substance, palparium. Palparium allows the artist to create in pure spheres of human emotion, the quality of work varying with how well the artist understands and is able to transmit his feelings. With the advent of this substance many ar- tists immediately commence in prostituting its possibilities for economic gains. Kunst is offended by this trend, and becomes deeply involved in the art form allows the artist to create in pure spheres of human emotion., the quality of work varying with how well the artist understands and is able to transmit his feelings. By Paul Shapiro to the point of obsession. His work is highly original, delving deeply into the human psyche, as he has an un- canny knack for perceiving moods and emotions and reducing them to their essence. He is a withdrawn man, his art misunderstood in a society where the audience, not being in touch with their emotions, are unable to grasp his work. Thus he becomes irreversably changed by his art, and at the same time alienated from it. Cain is deeply concerned with art and its qualities of expression, and the story clearly is meant to apply to conflicts today's artists are experiencing. He writes with a deep feeling for the artist's plight, and his vision of a substance dealing strictly with spheres of human emotion is quite intriguing. In 'Camera Obscura', editor Monteleone turns author to explore the artist's world as a separate reality and the, terrifying effect that technological ad- vancement might pres( photographer, Lieberma cident and his eyes are r stitutes. Through these e, visions,but only through and he is mysteriously i film. He becomes overwi ts all his previous work, metaphors relating to th~ become quite clear, an others) the artist's life en C.M. Kornbluth's 'Wi great fear for the futur around a sculptor in a superceded art. His wa however, to a society wl slowly being replaced by The anthology also inc pair of science fiction's Clarke and Roger Zelazi the phenomenon of the c his usual satiric best, p critics. 'The Arts And Beyond' tion and includes twelvee accompany each of the sto for the science fiction not die-hard followers. Paul Shapiro is a fi Sunday Magazine.