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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... thought . I fell in love with the magazine as a child , from what seemed an immense distance . Appear- ing under the same Rea Irvin - designed title - type and department logos as White and Thurber and Cheever and those magical cartoons ...
... thought . I fell in love with the magazine as a child , from what seemed an immense distance . Appear- ing under the same Rea Irvin - designed title - type and department logos as White and Thurber and Cheever and those magical cartoons ...
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... thought , citing the equally oppressed citizens of a tyranny , that you can have equality without freedom ; but you cannot have , I believe , freedom without equality . Without the sensation of equality , I mean , since absolute ...
... thought , citing the equally oppressed citizens of a tyranny , that you can have equality without freedom ; but you cannot have , I believe , freedom without equality . Without the sensation of equality , I mean , since absolute ...
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... thought that , whatever happened , you would never grow old . You went from left - wing revolution under Johnson to right - wing revolution under Reagan without losing your waistlines and fine tanned musculature . Now the first of you ...
... thought that , whatever happened , you would never grow old . You went from left - wing revolution under Johnson to right - wing revolution under Reagan without losing your waistlines and fine tanned musculature . Now the first of you ...
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... thought shall be my grave . " Which leaves two thoughts , however , to entertain above the ground . You have in your colorful pilgrimage long rehearsed what these thoughts might be : ( 1 ) love one another , and ( 2 ) seize the day ...
... thought shall be my grave . " Which leaves two thoughts , however , to entertain above the ground . You have in your colorful pilgrimage long rehearsed what these thoughts might be : ( 1 ) love one another , and ( 2 ) seize the day ...
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... thought of atomic war , like that of one's own death , was too big to be useful . An editorialist for the French journal Le Monde expressed the paradoxical formula : " The balance of terror is more and more the foundation of peace ...
... thought of atomic war , like that of one's own death , was too big to be useful . An editorialist for the French journal Le Monde expressed the paradoxical formula : " The balance of terror is more and more the foundation of peace ...
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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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