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Add MS 89203/2/4/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003359579
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003345873
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100039627259.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89203/2/4/1
- Title:
- Will Self: Early unpublished short fiction and fragments (juvenilia)
- Scope & Content:
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- (1). Early writing (4 sheets autograph, including poetry) and a typed letter to The Times drafted in response to leader article (13 July 1981) on 'believing in Britain';
- (2). 'Mr Impotent' (typed, pp. 1-7);
- (3). 'The Caring Ones' (typed, pp. 1-9);
- (4). 'Chapter One' (typed, pp. 4-6);
- (5). 'Chapter Three' (typed, 2 folios);
- (6). 'The Plastic Soldiers' (typed, 4 folios);
- (7). Fragment, beginning: 'It seems as if this is the seminal memory' (typed, 2 folios);
- (8). Fragment, beginning: 'It was one of those days when every second minute I felt as if I had the lineaments of some great novel inside of me' (typed , 12 folios) - annotated 'Grey Area' at the head of the first page;
- (9). 'F - !' (autograph, 1 folio);
- (10). Fragment, beginning: 'Towards the end of October' (typed, 4 folios);
- (11). 'Making Love to Yourself' (typed, 4 folios);
- (12). Various fragments (typed, 6 folios);
- (13). Autograph notes (large folded sheet);
- (14). Autograph notes (1 folio) beginning: 'Discipline is the key';
- (15). Beginning 'I've been considering doing some writing' (typed, pp. 1-29). Dated '9/2/87' on the first page.
- (16). 'The Dark Ages' (typed, pp. 1-5), dated 1983.
- (17). 'Post-Gaucheism' (typed, pp. 1-4), dated 1983.
- (18). 'A Day in the Life of a Grand Master'. Two typed drafts (pp. 1-6 including cartoon, and pp. 1-3), dated 1983.
- (19). 'Zorba the Creep' (three typed drafts, one of which dated 1983).
- (20). 'The Valley of the Anthropologists'. Two typed drafts, pp. 1-13 including 2 cartoons (1983), and pp. 1-7.
- (21). Fragments, comprising 2 typed pages and 3 cartoons.
- (22). 'Reduction of Understanding', a sequence of typed (photocopied) short stories, comprising title-page, contents page, and the following stories: 'Heike' (pp. 1-4), 'In Concert' (pp. 1-4), 'A Man in a Large Landscape' (pp. 1-4, and two alternative draft pages), 'Three Days in Anatolia' (pp. 1-3), 'Uncomplaining Days' (pp. 1-3), 'The Just' (pp. 1-4), 'A Pearl Diver' (pp. 1-3), '...A Man Lay with a Man' (pp. 1-3), 'Concrete' (pp. 1-4), 'You Think' (pp. 1-2), 'Here' (title-page only, no text, 1 sheet), and 'Antioch' (pp. 1-5, and an alternative final page).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003345873
033-003357982
036-003359578
040-003359579 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89203 : The Papers of Will Self
Add MS 89203/2 : Will Self: Personal and Literary Papers
Add MS 89203/2/4 : Will Self: Fiction
Add MS 89203/2/4/1 : Will Self: Early unpublished short fiction and fragments (juvenilia) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003345873[0002]/033-003357982[0006]/036-003359578[0001]/040-003359579
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89203
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1981
- End Date:
- 1987
- Date Range:
- 1981-1987
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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