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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... wife is subjected to stricter obligations . " Of the Indians , at a time when remnants of the Cherokee and Choctaw nations still existed in the South , and when the tribes had not yet been harried much beyond the Mississippi , he is ...
... wife is subjected to stricter obligations . " Of the Indians , at a time when remnants of the Cherokee and Choctaw nations still existed in the South , and when the tribes had not yet been harried much beyond the Mississippi , he is ...
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... wife and child but runs into , on the other side of the mountain , more entanglements and abridgements of his personal freedom . For there is no absolute freedom , of course . We are not free of our body's needs , of our sexual and ...
... wife and child but runs into , on the other side of the mountain , more entanglements and abridgements of his personal freedom . For there is no absolute freedom , of course . We are not free of our body's needs , of our sexual and ...
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... wife , who took ballet as a tiny girl and loved her Connecticut cotil- lions . Well , I tell her , life is more than a two - step . But in my heart I fear it is not ; we are born ( step one ) and then we die ( step two ) , and between ...
... wife , who took ballet as a tiny girl and loved her Connecticut cotil- lions . Well , I tell her , life is more than a two - step . But in my heart I fear it is not ; we are born ( step one ) and then we die ( step two ) , and between ...
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... being so naked in this American space , at feeling so free . Perception fragmented into bright shards . History , personal and global , became mere background noise . Tagging along in my wife's social orbit , I was 38 : GENDER AND HEALTH.
... being so naked in this American space , at feeling so free . Perception fragmented into bright shards . History , personal and global , became mere background noise . Tagging along in my wife's social orbit , I was 38 : GENDER AND HEALTH.
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... wife the fairest woman of earth . This is Helen , the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta ; Paris , as a guest in Menelaus's palace , per- suades Helen to elope with him . Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon , King of Mycenae , organize a ...
... wife the fairest woman of earth . This is Helen , the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta ; Paris , as a guest in Menelaus's palace , per- suades Helen to elope with him . Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon , King of Mycenae , organize a ...
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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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