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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... intermediary . Introducing works by other authors , especially those secure in the lists of immortality , offers the pleasure of another , peda- gogic impersonation ; the introductions to certain works of Melville PREFACE : xxiii.
... intermediary . Introducing works by other authors , especially those secure in the lists of immortality , offers the pleasure of another , peda- gogic impersonation ; the introductions to certain works of Melville PREFACE : xxiii.
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... offers such satis- factions the tactile thrill of the fixed , the interlocking - but any illu- sion of " permanent form " struggles against the realizations , come upon me late in life , that paper decays , that readership dwindles ...
... offers such satis- factions the tactile thrill of the fixed , the interlocking - but any illu- sion of " permanent form " struggles against the realizations , come upon me late in life , that paper decays , that readership dwindles ...
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... offers such satisfactions—the tactile thrill of the fixed, the interlocking—but any illusion of “permanent form” struggles against the realizations, come upon me late in life, that paper decays, that readership dwindles, that a book is ...
... offers such satisfactions—the tactile thrill of the fixed, the interlocking—but any illusion of “permanent form” struggles against the realizations, come upon me late in life, that paper decays, that readership dwindles, that a book is ...
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... offers to the naturalist's observation . To insure its continuance , Nature covers a lot of genetic bets ; the organisms unequal to the task of survival are eliminated , with their genes , from the vast ongoing struggle . The U.S. ...
... offers to the naturalist's observation . To insure its continuance , Nature covers a lot of genetic bets ; the organisms unequal to the task of survival are eliminated , with their genes , from the vast ongoing struggle . The U.S. ...
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... offer for sale politically incorrect advertisements , ads from 1890 to 1975 that might today be deemed " sexist , racist , or antianimal rights " ; and the Mas- sachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declaring a security emergency to combat ...
... offer for sale politically incorrect advertisements , ads from 1890 to 1975 that might today be deemed " sexist , racist , or antianimal rights " ; and the Mas- sachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declaring a security emergency to combat ...
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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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