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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... eyes to inanimate Nature . As they lost sight of gods and heroes , they set themselves to describe streams and mountains . " For de Tocqueville , the young United States are a giant social experi- ment whose results , good and bad , he ...
... eyes to inanimate Nature . As they lost sight of gods and heroes , they set themselves to describe streams and mountains . " For de Tocqueville , the young United States are a giant social experi- ment whose results , good and bad , he ...
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... eyes , those tender and intricate sites where the brain extrudes from the skull , and to his hands , which hold the pen or tap the keyboard . His body has been , not himself exactly , but a close pal , pot - bellied and balding like ...
... eyes , those tender and intricate sites where the brain extrudes from the skull , and to his hands , which hold the pen or tap the keyboard . His body has been , not himself exactly , but a close pal , pot - bellied and balding like ...
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... eyes under a crimson fury of protons , and even of sunburn welling up on my nose and collar bones became associated in my warped mind with healing , with normality . As early as chilly April , I would resort to the back dunes of the ...
... eyes under a crimson fury of protons , and even of sunburn welling up on my nose and collar bones became associated in my warped mind with healing , with normality . As early as chilly April , I would resort to the back dunes of the ...
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... eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon , by the gate of Bath - rabbim : thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus . In another verse , a shift in the language has betrayed the poetry : " My beloved put in his hand by ...
... eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon , by the gate of Bath - rabbim : thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus . In another verse , a shift in the language has betrayed the poetry : " My beloved put in his hand by ...
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... eye . Already , there are computers that can take in and put out spoken language . Already , a generation or two has ... eyes , overexcited the brain , and was anti - social . Do you follow me ? GUTENBERG : But ... those people staring ...
... eye . Already , there are computers that can take in and put out spoken language . Already , a generation or two has ... eyes , overexcited the brain , and was anti - social . Do you follow me ? GUTENBERG : But ... those people staring ...
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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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