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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... once said he wanted this always to be a country in which a person can get rich . Not , perhaps , a response that liberals can love , but a vivid and honest egalitar- ian one , expressing the hope that has brought millions here , and ...
... once said he wanted this always to be a country in which a person can get rich . Not , perhaps , a response that liberals can love , but a vivid and honest egalitar- ian one , expressing the hope that has brought millions here , and ...
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... once - sinewy nation , exultant in the resourceful- ness that freedom brings , now seems bloated and zombified , pillaged and crumbling , all around us . Enough of our original Puritanism remains to generate self - disgust . Benjamin ...
... once - sinewy nation , exultant in the resourceful- ness that freedom brings , now seems bloated and zombified , pillaged and crumbling , all around us . Enough of our original Puritanism remains to generate self - disgust . Benjamin ...
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... once - memorized baseball stats and stanzas by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , the sun still comes up without them . Physical deterioration : you boomers have jogged and bench - pressed and done yoga until you are somatically as gods ...
... once - memorized baseball stats and stanzas by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , the sun still comes up without them . Physical deterioration : you boomers have jogged and bench - pressed and done yoga until you are somatically as gods ...
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... once a month . Oh yes , shaving- scraping or buzzing away at your face every morning . Byron , in Don Juan , thought the repeated nuisance of shaving balanced out the periodic agony , for females , of childbirth . Women are , his lines ...
... once a month . Oh yes , shaving- scraping or buzzing away at your face every morning . Byron , in Don Juan , thought the repeated nuisance of shaving balanced out the periodic agony , for females , of childbirth . Women are , his lines ...
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... once in a while , cannot but be grateful to his body , especially to his 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 ...
... once in a while , cannot but be grateful to his body , especially to his 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 ...
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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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