More Matter: Essays and CriticismRandom House Publishing Group, 19 февр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 928 In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author remarks in his Preface, calls for “real stuff . . . not for the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction.” Still, the novelist’s shaping hand, his gift for telling detail, can be detected in many of these literary considerations. Books by Edith Wharton, Dawn Powell, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov are incisively treated, as are biographies of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, and Helen Keller. As George Steiner observed, Updike writes with a “solicitous, almost tender intelligence. The critic and the poet in him . . . are at no odds with the novelist; the same sharpness of apprehension bears on the object in each of Updike’s modes.” |
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... close students of my work — there are a few - will be interested . In truth , so impenetrably loom the paper mountains of a diligent oeuvre , that interviewers rarely seem aware of my faithful deposits of opinion and autobiography ...
... close students of my work — there are a few - will be interested . In truth , so impenetrably loom the paper mountains of a diligent oeuvre , that interviewers rarely seem aware of my faithful deposits of opinion and autobiography ...
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... close pal , pot - bellied and balding like most of his other pals now . A man and his body are like a boy and the buddy who has a driver's license and the use of his father's car for the evening ; you go along , gratefully , for the ...
... close pal , pot - bellied and balding like most of his other pals now . A man and his body are like a boy and the buddy who has a driver's license and the use of his father's car for the evening ; you go along , gratefully , for the ...
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... close as we came to aerobic exercise . But a tan is , of course , a gesture in the direction of nature , an attempt to be at one with our cosmic roots . Adam and Eve , most memorably por- trayed by indoorsy Northern Europeans like Jan ...
... close as we came to aerobic exercise . But a tan is , of course , a gesture in the direction of nature , an attempt to be at one with our cosmic roots . Adam and Eve , most memorably por- trayed by indoorsy Northern Europeans like Jan ...
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... close to theological debate . Prometheus Bound , for instance , portrays the stationary sufferings of the Titan who , amid Zeus's successful overthrow of the Titans , gave mankind fire ; for his punishment he is nailed and shackled to a ...
... close to theological debate . Prometheus Bound , for instance , portrays the stationary sufferings of the Titan who , amid Zeus's successful overthrow of the Titans , gave mankind fire ; for his punishment he is nailed and shackled to a ...
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... close to parody in its enactment by earthbound neurotics ; Menelaus and Helen are serenely selfish and diffident in the wake of the vast slaughter on their behalf . The majestically fraught tower of revenge murders , descending to ...
... close to parody in its enactment by earthbound neurotics ; Menelaus and Helen are serenely selfish and diffident in the wake of the vast slaughter on their behalf . The majestically fraught tower of revenge murders , descending to ...
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THE BURGLAR ALARM 220 | 72 |
THE GLITTERING CITY | 79 |
GEOGRAPHICAL CALENDRICAL TOPICAL | 97 |
Babies by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen | 684 |
Updike and I | 757 |
Introduction to SelfSelected Stories | 767 |
Foreword to Brother Grasshopper | 773 |
Note on My Father on the Verge of Disgrace | 776 |
Note for an Exhibit of New Yorker Cartoons | 787 |
Christmas Cards | 797 |
Reflections on Radio | 803 |
INTRODUCTIONS | 139 |
AMERICAN PAST MASTERS | 214 |
PHOTOS | 266 |
NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES | 291 |
OVERSEAS | 338 |
OTHER CONTINENTS | 397 |
MEDLEYS | 434 |
THINGS AS THEY | 571 |
MOVIES | 641 |
Accepting the Bobst Award | 810 |
Introduction to the Easton Press Edition of the Rabbit Novels | 816 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition of Memories | 825 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition | 832 |
Foreword to the French Translation of Facing Nature | 838 |
Index | 857 |
65 | 868 |
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