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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... Woman's Continent A Heavy World Between Montparnasse and Mt. Pelée Nobody Gets Away with Everything Shadows and Gardens Mountain Miseries Two Anglo - Indian Novels A Note on Narayan 397 405 409 411 415 420 425 432 MEDLEYS Glasnost ...
... Woman's Continent A Heavy World Between Montparnasse and Mt. Pelée Nobody Gets Away with Everything Shadows and Gardens Mountain Miseries Two Anglo - Indian Novels A Note on Narayan 397 405 409 411 415 420 425 432 MEDLEYS Glasnost ...
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... woman is irrecoverably lost in the bonds of matrimony . If an unmarried woman is less constrained there than elsewhere , a wife is subjected to stricter obligations . " Of the Indians , at a time when remnants of the Cherokee and ...
... woman is irrecoverably lost in the bonds of matrimony . If an unmarried woman is less constrained there than elsewhere , a wife is subjected to stricter obligations . " Of the Indians , at a time when remnants of the Cherokee and ...
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... woman , as played by Grace Kelly in the movie High Noon , can remain above the fray . America promises equal opportunity ; the opportunity , relatively unhobbled by feudal or socialist restraints , to get ahead . But to get ahead means ...
... woman , as played by Grace Kelly in the movie High Noon , can remain above the fray . America promises equal opportunity ; the opportunity , relatively unhobbled by feudal or socialist restraints , to get ahead . But to get ahead means ...
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... woman , white or black , is afraid to go into a certain neighborhood , whether it be Bedford - Stuyvesant or South Boston , freedom has been curtailed . Our liberties flourish in an atmo- sphere of mutual trust , and the legend of ...
... woman , white or black , is afraid to go into a certain neighborhood , whether it be Bedford - Stuyvesant or South Boston , freedom has been curtailed . Our liberties flourish in an atmo- sphere of mutual trust , and the legend of ...
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... woman . The 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 ...
... woman . The 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 ...
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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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