1. John Updike would've been 82 today if he lived. I'm working on a review-essay but a few twitter reflections.
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2. The sheer weight of Updike's oeuvre, virtually Victorian its size, makes it hard to have a just appraisal of his work.
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3. Updike: 23 novels, 12 books of story, 8 books of essays/criticism (most o800+ pages), 3 or 4 volumes of art criticism, 1 memoir etc
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5. Most of the severe judgments on JU come from selectively looking at only a portion of his writing.
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6. Vidal's view of JU as complacent celebrator of Americana looks very skewed if we considered JU's stranger books (The Coup, Brazil)
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@StephenHenighan Well, I see it as a Nabokovian attempt to make the familiar strange by viewing it from outside eyes.
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