The New Confessions

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This is the problem of the whole world, The history world tells us that if we don't change & modify it, its tragic end is certain. We live and enjoy the living and are full of dreams and hopes… And we never know what surprises the world and history keep for us lying ahead. Relating all this information serves two purposes: first, to make my bias clear; and, second, to attest to John’s credibility. His book might seem a stretch, but knowing him as I do, I would be astonished if it weren’t all true, a few errant memories and minor errors of fact notwithstanding. I find fault with the book only in his free-wheeling historical analysis. The loud objections that issued forth from establishment circles in response to the original edition of the book only served to confirmed the essential truths behind his story. Economic looters are valuable professionals who are involved in swindling trillions of dollars from countries around the world. Their weapons in this work are fake and fictitious social reports, fraudulently winning elections, bribery, forced exploitation. , Including illicit sex and even murder. Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond.

The New Confessions is the fourth novel by the Scottish writer William Boyd published in 1987. The theme and narrative structure of the novel is modelled on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Les Confessions, the reading of which has a huge impact on the protagonist's life.

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It might be, for example, that during his "Economic hit man" career, Perkins was party to a lot more shady stuff than he's included in the book. So he might know things he doesn't let on to the reader, and so there's an element of the reader having to take this on trust. But the book does take "2 + 2" in terms of evidence and sometimes come to 444,444. Clever use of metaphor and imagery which are able to take us, the reader, to another place to ponder on the pattern of life? An entertaining and darkly comic novel, a novel given weight and ballast by the pressure of recent history." -- The New York Times

In 2002, Boyd pulled off a similar feat in Any Human Heart, regarded by many as his finest work to date. It told the story of the fictional Logan Mountstuart – from his experiences as a spy during the second world war, to his life as an art dealer in 1960s New York and beyond – and came complete with footnotes. In many ways, Mountstuart and Todd are the male counterparts to the protagonist of Sweet Caress. It is clear that Boyd still delights in blending artifice with naturalism – the text is punctuated by photos supposedly taken by Amory and by the occasional portrait, sufficiently blurred to remain just anonymous enough. Even the title of the book is taken from an invented quote lifted from a hypothetical novel written by one of the fictional characters. But the cleverness never overwhelms the narrative. Sweet Caress is an audacious, sweeping, rich layer cake of a novel, at once a textual hall of mirrors and a brilliant tale of a life well lived. The positives and negatives are pretty polarising here, however, the former of the two stand out a mile ahead than the later. At least in my view.

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Perkins starts an alternative energy company, IPS, that flourishes. He also accepts a lucrative consulting job in exchange for promising not to write a tell-all book. Boyd spent eight years in academia, during which time his first film, Good and Bad at Games, was made. When he was offered a college lecturership, which would mean spending more time teaching, he was forced to choose between teaching and writing. The problem with this book was that I couldn't empathise with the protagonist. I just didn't like him. He was selfish and craven and didn't seem to develop any insight into his own character as he grew up. In particular, his lechery was almost uncomfortable at times.