Conversations with John Updike
John Updike says:Any act of description is, to some extent, an act of praise, so that even when the event is unpleasant or horrifying or spiritually stunning, the very attempt to describe it is, in some way, part of that Old Testament injunction to give praise.Even though my books strike many people as immoral or morally useless, to me they are really moral investigations of how we live, and harsh, perhaps, because the standards are otherworldly.There was a tradition among my peers for frank and open talk, and I'd always been a rather shy, priggish, unexperienced adolescent. So maybe my revenge as a young adult was to put down all the dirty w…
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Weitere Autoren: Updike, John / Plath, James (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-87805-700-9
- EAN: 9780878057009
- Produktnummer: 6461723
- Verlag: University Press Of Mississippi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.2 cm 489 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 489
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Thomas Fensch has a doctorate from Syracuse University in print communication and has taught at the university level for 35-plus years.
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