More Matter: Essays and CriticismRandom House Publishing Group, 19. 2. 2009. - 928 страница 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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... existence can know no absolute autonomy or 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 ...
... existence can know no absolute autonomy or 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 ...
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... existence precedes essence , that he is a free being who , in various cir- cumstances , can want only his freedom , I have at the same time recognized that I can want only the freedom of others . We extend freedom to others in the form ...
... existence precedes essence , that he is a free being who , in various cir- cumstances , can want only his freedom , I have at the same time recognized that I can want only the freedom of others . We extend freedom to others in the form ...
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... existence , office cubicle to sealed car to snug , burglar - proofed quarters where the televised world is piped in like chlorinated water . We feel bad because a once - sinewy nation , exultant in the resourceful- ness that freedom ...
... existence , office cubicle to sealed car to snug , burglar - proofed quarters where the televised world is piped in like chlorinated water . We feel bad because a once - sinewy nation , exultant in the resourceful- ness that freedom ...
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... there was the nuclear family , and there were nuclear Written in 1994 as one of six essays describing the six American decades of Newsweek's existence , since February 1933 . weapons , featuring the H - bomb . It took THE FIFTIES : 25.
... there was the nuclear family , and there were nuclear Written in 1994 as one of six essays describing the six American decades of Newsweek's existence , since February 1933 . weapons , featuring the H - bomb . It took THE FIFTIES : 25.
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... existence of venereal disease at all argues against Providence and in behalf of a demonic Nature , which hormonally incites Written for Hockney's Alphabet , a compilation edited by Stephen Spender , illustrated by David Hockney , and ...
... existence of venereal disease at all argues against Providence and in behalf of a demonic Nature , which hormonally incites Written for Hockney's Alphabet , a compilation edited by Stephen Spender , illustrated by David Hockney , and ...
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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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