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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... universe itself is a transitory scribble on the surface , so oddly breached fifteen billion years ago , of nothingness . Wow ! Zap ! Nevertheless , the living must live , a writer must write . Enough said . So bulky a book warrants a ...
... universe itself is a transitory scribble on the surface , so oddly breached fifteen billion years ago , of nothingness . Wow ! Zap ! Nevertheless , the living must live , a writer must write . Enough said . So bulky a book warrants a ...
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... universe itself is a transitory scribble on the surface, so oddly breached fifteen billion years ago, of nothingness. \Vowl Zap.' Nevertheless, the living must live, a writer must write. Enough said. So bulky a book warrants a brief ...
... universe itself is a transitory scribble on the surface, so oddly breached fifteen billion years ago, of nothingness. \Vowl Zap.' Nevertheless, the living must live, a writer must write. Enough said. So bulky a book warrants a brief ...
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... universe - but certain architec- tural remains corroborate it . In the nearby city of Reading , the munici- pal high school was a species of cathedral , looming ornately above its neighborhood - not merely constructed , but constructed ...
... universe - but certain architec- tural remains corroborate it . In the nearby city of Reading , the munici- pal high school was a species of cathedral , looming ornately above its neighborhood - not merely constructed , but constructed ...
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... universe , and literature was revered as it would not be again . The modernist classics - Eliot and Pound and Joyce and Stevens and Kafka and Proust - loomed as demigods to undergraduates and bohemians . What decade since the Twenties ...
... universe , and literature was revered as it would not be again . The modernist classics - Eliot and Pound and Joyce and Stevens and Kafka and Proust - loomed as demigods to undergraduates and bohemians . What decade since the Twenties ...
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... universe of atomic activity . One with the sun . Along with many of my generation , I had moved from a pinched and affrighted childhood to a post - war ease , when the middle class suddenly had the time and means to sample hedo- nism ...
... universe of atomic activity . One with the sun . Along with many of my generation , I had moved from a pinched and affrighted childhood to a post - war ease , when the middle class suddenly had the time and means to sample hedo- nism ...
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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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