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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... sense of equality is necessary to freedom because when a society breaks down into hopelessly unequal blocs the elite in its own defense will seek to contain - that is , to repress - the disaffected . Mostly white police forces already ...
... sense of equality is necessary to freedom because when a society breaks down into hopelessly unequal blocs the elite in its own defense will seek to contain - that is , to repress - the disaffected . Mostly white police forces already ...
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... sense of national community . But I wonder how much can be done from above , from a government already spending well beyond its means . A sense of contented commonality grows from the private pocketbook upwards . There is a freedom of ...
... sense of national community . But I wonder how much can be done from above , from a government already spending well beyond its means . A sense of contented commonality grows from the private pocketbook upwards . There is a freedom of ...
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... sense that the vast Eighties explosion of corporate acquisitions and junk - bond floatings was a storm of meaningless activity that left us without the ability to make anything- this having been , as our schoolteachers used to tell us ...
... sense that the vast Eighties explosion of corporate acquisitions and junk - bond floatings was a storm of meaningless activity that left us without the ability to make anything- this having been , as our schoolteachers used to tell us ...
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... sense of the chase lives in him as the key to life . His body is , like a delivery rocket that falls away in space , a disposable means . Men put their bodies at risk to experience the release from gravity . When my tenancy of a male ...
... sense of the chase lives in him as the key to life . His body is , like a delivery rocket that falls away in space , a disposable means . Men put their bodies at risk to experience the release from gravity . When my tenancy of a male ...
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... sense of space must differ from that of the female , who has such interesting , active , and significant inner space . The space that inter- ests men is outer . The fly ball high against the sky , the long pass spiralling overhead , the ...
... sense of space must differ from that of the female , who has such interesting , active , and significant inner space . The space that inter- ests men is outer . The fly ball high against the sky , the long pass spiralling overhead , the ...
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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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