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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... STORIES The Same Door ( 1959 ) Pigeon Feathers ( 1962 ) . Olinger Stories ( a selection , 1964 ) . The Music School ( 1966 ) Bech : A Book ( 1970 ) . ⚫ Museums and Women ( 1972 ) . Problems ( 1979 ) Too Far to Go ( a selec- tion , 1979 ) ...
... STORIES The Same Door ( 1959 ) Pigeon Feathers ( 1962 ) . Olinger Stories ( a selection , 1964 ) . The Music School ( 1966 ) Bech : A Book ( 1970 ) . ⚫ Museums and Women ( 1972 ) . Problems ( 1979 ) Too Far to Go ( a selec- tion , 1979 ) ...
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... Stories , " and " The Flamingo - Pink Decade . " THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE : " A Childhood Transgression . " THE NEW ... Story and I. " THE NEW REPUBLIC : " Fast Art " and " Cheever on the Rocks . " ART & ANTIQUES : " An Ecstatic State ...
... Stories , " and " The Flamingo - Pink Decade . " THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE : " A Childhood Transgression . " THE NEW ... Story and I. " THE NEW REPUBLIC : " Fast Art " and " Cheever on the Rocks . " ART & ANTIQUES : " An Ecstatic State ...
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... Story and I Introduction to Self - Selected Stories Foreword to Love Factories Foreword to " Brother Grasshopper " 757 758 762 767 770 773 Note on " A Sandstone Farmhouse " 774 Note on " Playing with Dynamite " 775 Foreword to " The ...
... Story and I Introduction to Self - Selected Stories Foreword to Love Factories Foreword to " Brother Grasshopper " 757 758 762 767 770 773 Note on " A Sandstone Farmhouse " 774 Note on " Playing with Dynamite " 775 Foreword to " The ...
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... story , let alone a poem ; instead he or she is invited to pen intro- ductions , reviews , and personal essays , preferably indiscreet . ( Pen them , then fax them . Instant modemed communication and rapidly overlapping semes are à la ...
... story , let alone a poem ; instead he or she is invited to pen intro- ductions , reviews , and personal essays , preferably indiscreet . ( Pen them , then fax them . Instant modemed communication and rapidly overlapping semes are à la ...
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... story of Gilgamesh . Gilgamesh was , in Sume- rian tradition , an early ruler of the city - state of Uruk , the builder of the city's mighty walls . To not only the Sumerians but to the Assyrians and Babylonians , who absorbed the ...
... story of Gilgamesh . Gilgamesh was , in Sume- rian tradition , an early ruler of the city - state of Uruk , the builder of the city's mighty walls . To not only the Sumerians but to the Assyrians and Babylonians , who absorbed the ...
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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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