European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine of novelist John Cheever to ask what a piece of fiction Means is to destroy its says by Petek Costa United press International u ran lie our Mai shoe Larry and in Olier wan Cheever of Kust John Cheever Sacii at a spot on i he floor slip Hhd to Star Board of the Canvas deck ships he was wearing had he been alive in the Vear his Home was Huilt he in double div would he sitting in the a Houang quarters of a Square ringer than in his present wac planked living room i am a my look Palms Over a sell Thomas clock on Maundy thurs Day i am a Wasp novelist and my characters Are wasps but one Hopes that one writes of univer Sal Universal truths he Sal Back in his wooden chair and inhaled his cigarette with an abandon that would Shock respiratory physicians and environmentalists everywhere the smoke disappeared to deep sea diver Depths before bubbling bark to the surface it floated out in thin wisps As the m year old novelist spoke of free Dom and its disappearance in modern society Inezn phone ally in his prison me knot i Mil p Ihsle ill in tin i s f mind Cheever Lesso with Ibe Kirori is wih Fie life i it killing i nut in t Brothe Freedom r hid at Home tossing a Rock for dog to  Are splendid metaphors or us we cant move with the Freedom that we feel is our proper hut beyond the there is the sense of the boundless the Blue the Blue ski it wis a or taper that Cheever  ins Reshni novel and one he often uses to in plus it of the ppr Middle Check or characters Are suburban men confined in their hermetic commuter men contained by the shatterproof lilacs of Rin bottles and the rigid world of Success and the Onan Izat Ion but his newest novel is More than lust a commen tary of modern manners for a novel is always More than it seems a novel is put together like an eyeball its usefulness determines an cd Tromell Cim Lei Structure there Are times when in seems to declare its own dimensions and according to Cheever to ask what a piece of fiction Means is to destroy its usefulness i cant think of a single piece of fiction that can he reduced to an aphorism or an Aesop fable like moral the novel is too Complex for that and too Sensi Tive he contrasted the novel with new there was a theory put Forth by Norman Mailer and Phil Rulh which eventually became the new and that theory was that the sensitivities ill the novelist would be brought to journalistic but the novel is the Only form that can Cope with what these men find he sat Forward As he said this i Blue Eves Hrisi thened he shifted in his chair and said with the Fervour of a Man who himself has resided in the i Arron provinces of alcoholism the novelist int a fool or a drunk or a Clown t and of that stereotype Saul when he accepted the prize for was the first male american novelist to comport himself with dig nity he up As he said this and opened the door to his Home in Ossmer n v outside his two Taulden retrievers romped on the of my on that would vim like to seethe minds he a tiled me Dpi on and initial Sauk a link Tot Blue june 1977 the stars and stripes Pago 9