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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... social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues . An invitation into print , from however suspect a source , is an opportunity to make something beautiful , to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried ...
... social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues . An invitation into print , from however suspect a source , is an opportunity to make something beautiful , to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried ...
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... social experi- ment whose results , good and bad , he holds up to his French readership as a guide to their probable future . " In our time , " he asserts , " and espe- cially in France , this passion for equality is every day gaining ...
... social experi- ment whose results , good and bad , he holds up to his French readership as a guide to their probable future . " In our time , " he asserts , " and espe- cially in France , this passion for equality is every day gaining ...
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... social revolution which swept the South in the 1950s and ' 60s , and a nationwide movement toward integration that has given us African- American mayors , judges , generals , sports stars , talk - show hosts , and , the other day , from ...
... social revolution which swept the South in the 1950s and ' 60s , and a nationwide movement toward integration that has given us African- American mayors , judges , generals , sports stars , talk - show hosts , and , the other day , from ...
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... social isolation . One man's freedom , as in Rabbit , Run , is purchased at the price of other people's suf- fering , often that of the innocent and helpless , the children among us . My third novel , The Centaur , in deliberate ...
... social isolation . One man's freedom , as in Rabbit , Run , is purchased at the price of other people's suf- fering , often that of the innocent and helpless , the children among us . My third novel , The Centaur , in deliberate ...
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... social structure . And are not societies still , basi- cally , protective associations ? I consider myself , as writers go , a patriotic American and a cheerful taxpayer ; but in honesty I pay my taxes not because I understand or ...
... social structure . And are not societies still , basi- cally , protective associations ? I consider myself , as writers go , a patriotic American and a cheerful taxpayer ; but in honesty I pay my taxes not because I understand or ...
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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 |
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