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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... driver and not a repairman , whereas the Americans were happily willing to go from being docile passengers to dynamic auto mechanics . They felt equal to the task . On another occasion , in Russia , I was told 8 : MATTERS OF STATE.
... driver and not a repairman , whereas the Americans were happily willing to go from being docile passengers to dynamic auto mechanics . They felt equal to the task . On another occasion , in Russia , I was told 8 : MATTERS OF STATE.
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Essays and Criticism John Updike. On another occasion , in Russia , I was told by a Russian that you could always tell an American by the way he walked down the street . When I asked how , he tried to demonstrate a kind of gunfighter's ...
Essays and Criticism John Updike. On another occasion , in Russia , I was told by a Russian that you could always tell an American by the way he walked down the street . When I asked how , he tried to demonstrate a kind of gunfighter's ...
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... told what is good for us . A full third of God's angels rebelled , we read in Mil- ton's Paradise Lost , even under Heaven's optimum conditions . We say of people , they need to stretch their wings . With those wings we fly from boredom ...
... told what is good for us . A full third of God's angels rebelled , we read in Mil- ton's Paradise Lost , even under Heaven's optimum conditions . We say of people , they need to stretch their wings . With those wings we fly from boredom ...
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... told , and a few — a very few — of them did . The Soviets ' gulags and purges and show trials , their absurd censorship and xenophobia , their military invasions of their supposed allies , and finally their stubbornly backward economy ...
... told , and a few — a very few — of them did . The Soviets ' gulags and purges and show trials , their absurd censorship and xenophobia , their military invasions of their supposed allies , and finally their stubbornly backward economy ...
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... told us we would " pay any price , bear any burden , meet any hardship , support any friend " to advance the cause of liberty , and Lyndon Johnson simultaneously launched the War Against Poverty and the war against North Vietnam . Guns ...
... told us we would " pay any price , bear any burden , meet any hardship , support any friend " to advance the cause of liberty , and Lyndon Johnson simultaneously launched the War Against Poverty and the war against North Vietnam . Guns ...
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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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