简介
John Updike's sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading "General Considerations," books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more or less autobiographical pieces--reminiscences, friendly forewords, comments on the author's own recent works, responses to probing questions. In between, many books are considered, some in introductions--to such classics as Walden, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Mabinogion--and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Wizard of Oz. Contemporary American and English writers--Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan-- receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garc芒ia M芒arquez, Haruki Murakami, G猫unter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk. In factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the "unsinkable career" of Coco Chanel, the adventures of Lord Byron and Iris Murdoch, the sexual revolution and the advent of female Biblical scholars, and biographies of Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust, and S虏ren Kierkegaard.--From publisher's description.
目录
Table Of Contents:
Preface xvii
Everything Considered
On Literary Biography 3(670)
Five Essays
Back from China 14(9)
A Sense of Change 23(4)
The Future of Faith 27(14)
Invisible Cathedral 41(8)
Late Works 49(19)
General Considerations
A Case for Books 68(2)
Looking Back to Now 70(2)
The Tried and the Treowe 72(3)
A Layman's Scope 75(2)
Against Angelolatry 77(2)
Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido 79(3)
Five Great Novels About Loving 82(1)
Hydrophobia 82(2)
My Life in Poker 84(2)
My Life in Cars 86(6)
Tributes and Short Takes
West 155th Street 92(1)
The Academy As It Was and Is: A Talk, with Slides 93(6)
The New Yorker 99(2)
William Shawn 101(2)
William Maxwell 103(2)
Wright Morris 105(3)
Eudora Welty 108(1)
Ernest Hemingway 108(2)
Ted Williams 110(3)
November 22, 1963 113(1)
JFK, Jr. 114(3)
September 11, 2001 117(4)
Considering Books
Introductions
To the Everyman's Library edition of The Mabinogion 121(3)
To The Blithedale Romance 124(7)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Walden, by Henry David Thoreau: 150th Anniversary Edition 131(11)
To The Portrait of a Lady 142(6)
Henry James
To The Diary of Adam and Eve and Other Adamic Stories 148(3)
Mark Twain
To Seven Men 151(4)
Max Beerbohm
To The Rich Boy, three stories 155(2)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To The Eighth Day 157(6)
Thornton Wilder
To The Golden West: Hollywood Stories 163(6)
Daniel Fuchs
To Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems 169(10)
To Elephant House, or, The Home of Edward Gorey, photographs and text 179(2)
Kevin McDermott
To Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art 181(4)
To the German catalogue of an exhibit of photographs by Ulrich Mack of the Ipswich marshes 185(2)
Monuments
The Great I Am 187(9)
Big Dead White Male 196(9)
Down the River 205(7)
Oz Is Us 212(9)
Hide and Seek 221(7)
Thurber and White
Introduction to the Perennial Edition of Is Sex Necessary? 228(6)
Thurber's Art 234(4)
Magnum Opus 238(8)
Introduction to a New Edition of The Letters of E. B. White 246(5)
American Fiction
These Trashy Years 251(3)
Coming Home 254(3)
Tote that Ephemera 257(4)
Dog's Tears 261(4)
One-Way Street 265(4)
Red Loves Rex, Alas 269(5)
Angel-Tits and Hellmouth 274(4)
Mind/Body Problems---I 278(5)
Mixed Messages 283(6)
The Great Game Gone 289(4)
A Cloud of Dust 293(7)
English Fiction
Property and Presumption 300(2)
A Same-Sex Idyll 302(4)
Fairy Tales and Paradigms 306(9)
Stonewalling Toffs 315(3)
Flesh on Flesh 318(4)
Absent Presences 322(3)
Mind/Body Problems---II 325(3)
Flashy to the Rescue 328(6)
In English But Not English
Home Care 334(4)
Love and Loss on Zycron 338(6)
Dangerous into Beautiful 344(3)
Both Rough and Tender 347(6)
Papery Passions 353(4)
Blood and Paint 357(4)
A Case of Deutschfeindlichkeit; or, All About Abish 361(9)
The Story of Himself 370(5)
Pre-``Gay'' Gray 375(6)
Paradises Lost 381(6)
In Other Tongues
Dying for Love 387(5)
The Lone Sailor 392(8)
Two's a Crowd 400(4)
Mind/Body Problems---III 404(7)
Suppressed Atrocities 411(4)
Murder Among the Miniaturists 415(7)
Arabesques of Ambivalence 422(4)
Extended Performance 426(7)
Subconscious Tunnels 433(5)
Bitter Bamboo 438(8)
Non-Fiction
Groaning Shelves 446(4)
Can Eve Be Reprieved? 450(7)
Was Sex Necessary? 457(8)
Chanel No. 1 465(6)
The Poor Babies 471(7)
Drawn to Gypsies 478(6)
Survivor/Believer 484(7)
Twice Collected 491(10)
Literary Biography
Mud and Flames 501(10)
Incommensurability 511(12)
The Man in Bed 523(7)
Poet on the Fault Line 530(9)
No Brakes 539(8)
A Natural Writer 547(8)
Young Iris 555(9)
Art
One Obstinate Survivor on Another 564(7)
Metropolitan Art 571(6)
Deceptively Conceptual 577(6)
Durer's Passions 583(9)
The Thing Itself 592(7)
The Imaginary Builder 599(8)
Personal Considerations
A Tribute to Saul Steinberg 607(5)
Introduction to The World of William Steig 612(3)
Introduction to a Section of The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker 615(3)
The Would-Be Animator 618(3)
Introduction to Poor Arnold's Almanac 621(1)
Introduction to Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986--2006 622(3)
Foreword to the Catalogue of My Father's House (Will Barnet) 625(2)
A Reminiscence of Hyman Bloom 627(1)
Introduction to Wolf Kahn's America 628(1)
Saint Nick: Essay for the Catalogue of George Nick: A Retrospective 629(2)
Foreword to the MFA Publications Reprint of Just Looking 631(2)
Foreword to the Stackpole Books Edition of Buchanan Dying 633(4)
A ``Special Message'' for the Franklin Library Edition of Gertrude and Claudius 637(3)
Prefacio to Poemas 1953--1999 640(1)
Foreword to Humor in Fiction 641(1)
Foreword to the Easton Press Edition of Licks of Love 642(2)
Note on ``Bech Noir'' for The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 644(1)
Note on ``Personal Archeology'' for The Best American Short Stories 2001 644(1)
Note on ``The Walk with Elizanne'' for The Best American Short Stories 2004 645(1)
Comment on ``Your Lover Just Called,'' in the anthology This Is My Best 646(1)
Recurrent Characters 646(3)
An Interview Conducted by Henry Bech 649(2)
Foreword to My Own Bibliography 651(3)
Three Brits (Tina Brown, Frank Kermode, Andre Deutsch) 654(4)
An Account of my Childhood Reading 658(2)
A Response to a Question from The Yale Literary Magazine 660(1)
A Response to a Request from Michael Dirda 660(1)
A Response to GQ's Request for My Favorite Year of the Century 661(1)
Summer Love 662(1)
The Beautiful 663(1)
A Response to a Request from a Miss Gordon 664(1)
Early Employments and Inklings 665(1)
My Philadelphia 666(2)
A Response to the Question ``Why Do I Live in New England?'' 668(1)
A Response to a Request for a Memory of Harvard Dorm Life 669(1)
Statement for There Is No Other Story: Ethics, Literature, and Theory 669(1)
My Contribution to the NPR Series This I Believe 670(3)
Index 673
Preface xvii
Everything Considered
On Literary Biography 3(670)
Five Essays
Back from China 14(9)
A Sense of Change 23(4)
The Future of Faith 27(14)
Invisible Cathedral 41(8)
Late Works 49(19)
General Considerations
A Case for Books 68(2)
Looking Back to Now 70(2)
The Tried and the Treowe 72(3)
A Layman's Scope 75(2)
Against Angelolatry 77(2)
Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido 79(3)
Five Great Novels About Loving 82(1)
Hydrophobia 82(2)
My Life in Poker 84(2)
My Life in Cars 86(6)
Tributes and Short Takes
West 155th Street 92(1)
The Academy As It Was and Is: A Talk, with Slides 93(6)
The New Yorker 99(2)
William Shawn 101(2)
William Maxwell 103(2)
Wright Morris 105(3)
Eudora Welty 108(1)
Ernest Hemingway 108(2)
Ted Williams 110(3)
November 22, 1963 113(1)
JFK, Jr. 114(3)
September 11, 2001 117(4)
Considering Books
Introductions
To the Everyman's Library edition of The Mabinogion 121(3)
To The Blithedale Romance 124(7)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Walden, by Henry David Thoreau: 150th Anniversary Edition 131(11)
To The Portrait of a Lady 142(6)
Henry James
To The Diary of Adam and Eve and Other Adamic Stories 148(3)
Mark Twain
To Seven Men 151(4)
Max Beerbohm
To The Rich Boy, three stories 155(2)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To The Eighth Day 157(6)
Thornton Wilder
To The Golden West: Hollywood Stories 163(6)
Daniel Fuchs
To Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems 169(10)
To Elephant House, or, The Home of Edward Gorey, photographs and text 179(2)
Kevin McDermott
To Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art 181(4)
To the German catalogue of an exhibit of photographs by Ulrich Mack of the Ipswich marshes 185(2)
Monuments
The Great I Am 187(9)
Big Dead White Male 196(9)
Down the River 205(7)
Oz Is Us 212(9)
Hide and Seek 221(7)
Thurber and White
Introduction to the Perennial Edition of Is Sex Necessary? 228(6)
Thurber's Art 234(4)
Magnum Opus 238(8)
Introduction to a New Edition of The Letters of E. B. White 246(5)
American Fiction
These Trashy Years 251(3)
Coming Home 254(3)
Tote that Ephemera 257(4)
Dog's Tears 261(4)
One-Way Street 265(4)
Red Loves Rex, Alas 269(5)
Angel-Tits and Hellmouth 274(4)
Mind/Body Problems---I 278(5)
Mixed Messages 283(6)
The Great Game Gone 289(4)
A Cloud of Dust 293(7)
English Fiction
Property and Presumption 300(2)
A Same-Sex Idyll 302(4)
Fairy Tales and Paradigms 306(9)
Stonewalling Toffs 315(3)
Flesh on Flesh 318(4)
Absent Presences 322(3)
Mind/Body Problems---II 325(3)
Flashy to the Rescue 328(6)
In English But Not English
Home Care 334(4)
Love and Loss on Zycron 338(6)
Dangerous into Beautiful 344(3)
Both Rough and Tender 347(6)
Papery Passions 353(4)
Blood and Paint 357(4)
A Case of Deutschfeindlichkeit; or, All About Abish 361(9)
The Story of Himself 370(5)
Pre-``Gay'' Gray 375(6)
Paradises Lost 381(6)
In Other Tongues
Dying for Love 387(5)
The Lone Sailor 392(8)
Two's a Crowd 400(4)
Mind/Body Problems---III 404(7)
Suppressed Atrocities 411(4)
Murder Among the Miniaturists 415(7)
Arabesques of Ambivalence 422(4)
Extended Performance 426(7)
Subconscious Tunnels 433(5)
Bitter Bamboo 438(8)
Non-Fiction
Groaning Shelves 446(4)
Can Eve Be Reprieved? 450(7)
Was Sex Necessary? 457(8)
Chanel No. 1 465(6)
The Poor Babies 471(7)
Drawn to Gypsies 478(6)
Survivor/Believer 484(7)
Twice Collected 491(10)
Literary Biography
Mud and Flames 501(10)
Incommensurability 511(12)
The Man in Bed 523(7)
Poet on the Fault Line 530(9)
No Brakes 539(8)
A Natural Writer 547(8)
Young Iris 555(9)
Art
One Obstinate Survivor on Another 564(7)
Metropolitan Art 571(6)
Deceptively Conceptual 577(6)
Durer's Passions 583(9)
The Thing Itself 592(7)
The Imaginary Builder 599(8)
Personal Considerations
A Tribute to Saul Steinberg 607(5)
Introduction to The World of William Steig 612(3)
Introduction to a Section of The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker 615(3)
The Would-Be Animator 618(3)
Introduction to Poor Arnold's Almanac 621(1)
Introduction to Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986--2006 622(3)
Foreword to the Catalogue of My Father's House (Will Barnet) 625(2)
A Reminiscence of Hyman Bloom 627(1)
Introduction to Wolf Kahn's America 628(1)
Saint Nick: Essay for the Catalogue of George Nick: A Retrospective 629(2)
Foreword to the MFA Publications Reprint of Just Looking 631(2)
Foreword to the Stackpole Books Edition of Buchanan Dying 633(4)
A ``Special Message'' for the Franklin Library Edition of Gertrude and Claudius 637(3)
Prefacio to Poemas 1953--1999 640(1)
Foreword to Humor in Fiction 641(1)
Foreword to the Easton Press Edition of Licks of Love 642(2)
Note on ``Bech Noir'' for The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 644(1)
Note on ``Personal Archeology'' for The Best American Short Stories 2001 644(1)
Note on ``The Walk with Elizanne'' for The Best American Short Stories 2004 645(1)
Comment on ``Your Lover Just Called,'' in the anthology This Is My Best 646(1)
Recurrent Characters 646(3)
An Interview Conducted by Henry Bech 649(2)
Foreword to My Own Bibliography 651(3)
Three Brits (Tina Brown, Frank Kermode, Andre Deutsch) 654(4)
An Account of my Childhood Reading 658(2)
A Response to a Question from The Yale Literary Magazine 660(1)
A Response to a Request from Michael Dirda 660(1)
A Response to GQ's Request for My Favorite Year of the Century 661(1)
Summer Love 662(1)
The Beautiful 663(1)
A Response to a Request from a Miss Gordon 664(1)
Early Employments and Inklings 665(1)
My Philadelphia 666(2)
A Response to the Question ``Why Do I Live in New England?'' 668(1)
A Response to a Request for a Memory of Harvard Dorm Life 669(1)
Statement for There Is No Other Story: Ethics, Literature, and Theory 669(1)
My Contribution to the NPR Series This I Believe 670(3)
Index 673
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