The Journal Of Joyce Carol Oates (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
and even conventional on the one hand; and to be absolutely free, inventive, wild, unrestrained in the imagination. So that the two worlds appear incompatible. There is no point of contact…. But the unrestrained world is within the “normal” world, it is the normal world’s untold secret. During the winter and spring of 1979, Joyce Carol Oates remained immersed in her most ambitious novel to date, Bellefleur. The journal includes a fascinating, almost daily recounting of her absorption in this “lush” work of the imagination. Later in the year, having completed the novel, she turned to more modest but equally absorbing works, both of them novels told in the form of linked short stories, a genre she had emulated in one of her apprentice novels as a young girl after reading Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time. These novels were Marya: A Life, which would not be published until 1986, and Perpetual Motion, whose stories were published in magazines but which never appeared in book form.
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