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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... later , is twofold : relief that things are not quite that bad , but sorrow that de Tocqueville's picture still has so much truth in it . In spite of a legal and social revolution which swept the South in the 1950s and ' 60s , and a ...
... later , is twofold : relief that things are not quite that bad , but sorrow that de Tocqueville's picture still has so much truth in it . In spite of a legal and social revolution which swept the South in the 1950s and ' 60s , and a ...
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... later , this fraction had doubled , and by 1929 it had climbed to forty - three percent - nearly half of the nation's wealth in the hands of one - hundredth of the population . The Depression , World War II , and post - war boom saw the ...
... later , this fraction had doubled , and by 1929 it had climbed to forty - three percent - nearly half of the nation's wealth in the hands of one - hundredth of the population . The Depression , World War II , and post - war boom saw the ...
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... later ; in Korea , however , both sides accepted stalemate . MacArthur had wanted to go for an old - fashioned all - out vic- tory , but Truman , confrontational though he was on the home front , always resisted the tempters urging him ...
... later ; in Korea , however , both sides accepted stalemate . MacArthur had wanted to go for an old - fashioned all - out vic- tory , but Truman , confrontational though he was on the home front , always resisted the tempters urging him ...
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... later . Homer - to give the authors of the epics a single name - was dealing with a world that was , to him , archaic . His treatment of the gods is sometimes light- hearted , and he was chastised by Renaissance critics as , compared ...
... later . Homer - to give the authors of the epics a single name - was dealing with a world that was , to him , archaic . His treatment of the gods is sometimes light- hearted , and he was chastised by Renaissance critics as , compared ...
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... later but arrived at greatness somewhat earlier than the Spanish author , is a playwright who reminds us of Euripides in his wealth of invention and psychological insight , and in the sense he gives of a near- chaotic , feverish ...
... later but arrived at greatness somewhat earlier than the Spanish author , is a playwright who reminds us of Euripides in his wealth of invention and psychological insight , and in the sense he gives of a near- chaotic , feverish ...
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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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