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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... Side of Coberence The Man Within Shirley Temple Regina THINGS AS THEY ARE An Undeciphered Residue At the Hairy Edge of the Possible Things , Things 481 489 499 509 516 524 530 538 552 561 571 578 586 Box Me , Daddy , Eight to the Bar ...
... Side of Coberence The Man Within Shirley Temple Regina THINGS AS THEY ARE An Undeciphered Residue At the Hairy Edge of the Possible Things , Things 481 489 499 509 516 524 530 538 552 561 571 578 586 Box Me , Daddy , Eight to the Bar ...
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... side of the mountain , more entanglements and abridgements of his personal freedom . For there is no absolute freedom , of course . We are not free of our body's needs , of our sexual and emotional compulsions , or of other people from ...
... side of the mountain , more entanglements and abridgements of his personal freedom . For there is no absolute freedom , of course . We are not free of our body's needs , of our sexual and emotional compulsions , or of other people from ...
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... side issue in the thick of the battle becomes a matter of careful consideration and numerous dis- criminations . Pressing obligations suddenly loom as imaginary . The charms of saying no , of not - doing , for the first time exercise a ...
... side issue in the thick of the battle becomes a matter of careful consideration and numerous dis- criminations . Pressing obligations suddenly loom as imaginary . The charms of saying no , of not - doing , for the first time exercise a ...
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... side . We will bury you !, " and J. Robert Oppenheimer likened the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to two scorpions in a ... sides accepted stalemate . MacArthur had wanted to go for an old - fashioned all - out vic- tory , but Truman ...
... side . We will bury you !, " and J. Robert Oppenheimer likened the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to two scorpions in a ... sides accepted stalemate . MacArthur had wanted to go for an old - fashioned all - out vic- tory , but Truman ...
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... side of the world , where the Japanese were tentatively imi- tating this risqué Western custom , the hero of the great Tanizaki's Naomi has a harder time of it , at first : I remember taking Naomi's hand and beginning the one - WOMEN ...
... side of the world , where the Japanese were tentatively imi- tating this risqué Western custom , the hero of the great Tanizaki's Naomi has a harder time of it , at first : I remember taking Naomi's hand and beginning the one - WOMEN ...
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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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