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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... John Updike. for ROGER ANGELL and ANN GOLDSTEIN editors , audiences of one , companions in the hunt for the elusive mot juste and the fearsome phrase mauvaise Preface Contents MATTERS OF STATE Large Matters Freedom and Equality.
... John Updike. for ROGER ANGELL and ANN GOLDSTEIN editors , audiences of one , companions in the hunt for the elusive mot juste and the fearsome phrase mauvaise Preface Contents MATTERS OF STATE Large Matters Freedom and Equality.
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Essays and Criticism John Updike. for ROGER ANGELL and ANN GOLDSTEIN editors, audiences of one, companions in the hunt for the elusive matjlme and the fearsome phrase mauvaise Contents Preface Large Matters MATTE RS OF STATE Freedom and.
Essays and Criticism John Updike. for ROGER ANGELL and ANN GOLDSTEIN editors, audiences of one, companions in the hunt for the elusive matjlme and the fearsome phrase mauvaise Contents Preface Large Matters MATTE RS OF STATE Freedom and.
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Essays and Criticism John Updike. Preface Contents MATTERS OF STATE Large Matters Freedom and Equality : Two American Bluebirds The State of the Union , as of March 1992 Letter to a Baby Boomer The Fifties GENDER AND HEALTH ཚུ xxi 16 22 ...
Essays and Criticism John Updike. Preface Contents MATTERS OF STATE Large Matters Freedom and Equality : Two American Bluebirds The State of the Union , as of March 1992 Letter to a Baby Boomer The Fifties GENDER AND HEALTH ཚུ xxi 16 22 ...
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... Matters Updike and I Me and My Books The Short Story and I Introduction to Self - Selected Stories Foreword to Love Factories Foreword to " Brother Grasshopper " 757 758 762 767 770 773 Note on " A Sandstone Farmhouse " 774 Note on ...
... Matters Updike and I Me and My Books The Short Story and I Introduction to Self - Selected Stories Foreword to Love Factories Foreword to " Brother Grasshopper " 757 758 762 767 770 773 Note on " A Sandstone Farmhouse " 774 Note on ...
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... Matter . Suburban interrelations creep into discussions of dancing , suntanning , and the Fifties . Among living American authors , I take , it may be , an anomalously positive or at least hopeful view of our Republic's progress ; hence ...
... Matter . Suburban interrelations creep into discussions of dancing , suntanning , and the Fifties . Among living American authors , I take , it may be , an anomalously positive or at least hopeful view of our Republic's progress ; hence ...
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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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