'Before The Dark', three notebooks with drafts and planning notes
Scope & Content:
Ringbound notebook 1, titled 'Before The Dark' (later changed to 'Lights'), containing autograph notes and drafts of the novel, including a note explaining the intention of the writing on the back of the cover page. (A) Notebook 2, titled 'Before the Dark 2', containing autograph notes about sent...
Draft screenplay typescript for 90 minute film 'The Last Act', 100pp. Undated. Also includes an autograph letter from David Jones to Eva Figes, explaining his concerns about the play and his reasons for not backing it, dated 1 Nov.
28 autograph letters from John Berger to Eva Figes. Berger comments in these letters on Figes' novels including B, Konek Landing, an un-named autobiography dated c 1974, Light, The Seven Ages, The Knot, and 'Forgetting'. Also included are a couple of reviews by Berger of Figes' work.
Research for 'Journey to Nowhere', mostly printed material with a few autograph notes. Press cuttings relating to Palestine and the Jewish diaspora, c 2000-2008. Photocopied articles about Jews, diaspora and anti-semitism. Including ‘An Hour at the Amusement Park’ by Joseph Roth, William Shenei...