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John Updike Biografía y Hechos

John Hoyer Updike (Reading, Pensilvania, 18 de marzo de 1932 - Danvers, Massachusetts, 27 de enero de 2009) fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas, relatos cortos, poesías, ensayos, libros para niños, así como de un libro de memorias personales. También hizo crítica de arte y literaria. La obra más importante de Updike fue la serie de novelas sobre su famoso personaje Harry Conejo Angstrom (Corre, Conejo; El regreso de Conejo; Conejo es rico; Conejo en paz y la novela de evocaciones y remembranzas del mismo personaje, titulada Conejo en el recuerdo). De la tetralogía, Conejo es rico y Conejo en paz le permitieron ganar sendos premios Pulitzer en 1982 y 1991. Definiendo el tema de sus relatos como «el protestante de clase media de una pequeña ciudad norteamericana», Updike es reconocido por una cuidadosa artesanía en su método de escribir, su distintivo estilo y su abundante obra -escribió una media de un libro al año. Publicó un total de veintidós novelas y más de una docena de colecciones de relatos. Cientos de sus historias, reportajes y poemas fueron apareciendo regularmente en el semanario The New Yorker desde 1950. Su trabajo como escritor explora habitualmente las motivaciones humanas sobre el sexo, la fe, la razón última de la existencia, la muerte, los conflictos generacionales y las relaciones interpersonales. Inicios Aunque nació en Reading, pronto se trasladó por motivos laborales de su padre a Shillington, donde transcurrió toda su infancia y posterior adolescencia. John Updike fue impelido a la literatura y a iniciarse en la escritura por su propia madre, quien además le inculcó un profundo amor por el arte. Su padre era un humilde profesor de instituto, que habiendo sufrido las adversidades de la crisis de 1929, mantenía a toda la familia con grandes sacrificios y un sueldo exiguo debido a que trabajaba con contratos temporales. Posteriormente, Updike ingresó, disfrutando una beca, en la Universidad de Harvard donde ostentó el cargo de presidente del Harvard Lampoon antes de graduarse, con sobresaliente cum laude en Literatura Inglesa el año 1954 tras escribir una tesis doctoral sobre George Herbert. Trasladándose al Reino Unido, Updike ingresó para estudiar Arte en la Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts de Oxford, pasando a su regreso a convertirse en un asiduo redactor de la revista The New Yorker entre 1955 y 1957. En 1957, Updike deja Manhattan (Nueva York) y se traslada a vivir a Ipswich (Massachusetts), que posteriormente le serviría como modelo para el pueblo de ficción llamado Tarbox en su novela de 1968 titulada Parejas y donde escribirá su primera novela, La feria del asilo. En 1959 Updike publica una excelente colección de historias cortas: La misma puerta, que incluye los relatos ¿Quién hizo amarillas las rosas amarillas? y Un trillón de pies de gas. Otras historias clásicas de John Updike son "A&P", Plumas de paloma, Los caimanes y Museos y mujeres. Su ensayo Los fans de Bid Kid Adieu, publicado en The New Yorker en 1960, trata la historia del legendario último partido del jugador de béisbol de Boston, Ted Williams, y está considerado como uno de los mejores ejemplos escritos de crónica deportiva de todos los tiempos. Período de madurez Otras importantes novelas de John Updike han sido El Centauro, escrita en 1963, una auténtica obra maestra casi autobiográfica, con la cual obtuvo el National Book Award de 1964, donde el escritor, usando como trasfondo el mito clásico de Prometeo y la muerte de Quirón para redimir su culpa, discurre inteligentemente sobre los desencuentros generacionales, el sacrificio absoluto y la entrega total de un humilde profesor de instituto de un pequeño pueblo americano, vencido por la vida y el trabajo, a su hijo Peter Caldwell, un chico soñador deseoso de huir de la monotonía y de la miseria para labrarse un futuro lejos de la mediocridad de un ambiente pueblerino que le oprime (en realidad, dos vivos autorretratos del padre del propio autor y de él mismo, respectivamente). Otras dos importantes novelas de su producción son Parejas (1968), ya mencionada con anterioridad, y La Versión de Roger (1986). En consonancia con Harry Angstrom, el recurrente alter ego de John Updike vuelve de nuevo a aparecer en el poco conocido y escasamente prolífico personaje de ficción Henry Bech, un escritor judío que aparece retratado en varios ciclos de relatos cómicos breves de Updike, como son: El Libro de Bech (1970), El Regreso de Bech (1981) y Bech en la Bahía: una cuasinovela (1998). Sus historias, impregnadas en la llamada conciencia social, así como en el ascenso (o escalada social) a cualquier precio, dieron como fruto la novela sobre la familia Los Arces, que ha sido considerado un relato puramente autobiográfico y fuente para la realización de la película televisiva titulada Demasiado lejos para ir, protagonizada por Michael Moriarty y Blythe Danner, y producida por la NBC. Updike declaró que había escogido el apellido Arce para los protagonistas del film porque siempre ha admirado la belleza y resistencia de los árboles. Crítica Mientras Updike continuó publicando obras a razón de una cada año, la crítica literaria sobre estos últimos trabajos, desde comienzos de los 90, ha sido habitualmente silenciada, y en ocasiones incluso ignorada. Sin embargo, su alcance novelístico en años recientes ha sido extenso: cuentos sobre historias míticas como Tristan e Isolda en Brasil (también conocida como Brasil, 1994); un curioso anticipo ficticio de Hamlet en Gertrudis y Claudio, (2000), un relato preciosista de gran virtuosismo literario sobre una saga generacional En la belleza de los lirios (1996), y una narración de ciencia ficción titulada Hacia el final de tiempo (1997). En Pueblos (2004), John Updike retoma y aborda nuevamente el viejo tema familiar de la infidelidad en el estado de Nueva Inglaterra. Su vigésima segunda novela, Terrorista, publicada en junio de 2006, relata la historia de un ferviente y fanático musulmán de dieciocho años que vive en Nueva York planeando cometer un atentado. Updike es, asimismo, autor de un libro autobiográfico de memorias titulado A conciencia donde recuerda sus emociones, traumas y experiencias más vívidas desde su infancia hasta la edad adulta, en una especie de relato generacional dirigido a sus propios nietos. Obra Serie de Harry Conejo Angstrom Corre, Conejo (Rabbit, Run, 1960) El regreso de Conejo (Rabbit Redux, 1971) Conejo es rico (Rabbit Is Rich, 1981) - Premio Pulitzer y National Book Award de 1982 Conejo en paz (Rabbit At Rest, 1990) - Premio Pulitzer Conejo en el recuerdo y otras historias (Rabbit Remembered, 2001) Serie de Henry Bech El Libro de Bech (Bech, a Book, 1970) Bech ha vuelto (Bech Is Back, 1982) Adiós a Bech (Bech at Bay, 1998) James Buchanan Buchanan Dying, 1974, obra de teatro Memorias de la administración Ford (Memories of the Ford Administration, 1992) Eastwick Las brujas de Eastwick (The Witches of Eastwick, 1984) - Llevada al cine en 1.... Descubre los libros populares de John Updike. 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  • Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Individualität und Kollektivität - "Rabbit in Ruhe" von John Updike sinopsis y comentarios

    Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Individualität und Kollektivität - "Rabbit in Ruhe" von John Updike

    Birgitt Reiß

    John Updike (19322009) verstand sein gesamtes schriftstellerisches Werk als „moral debates with the reader“ . Dieser Selbstreferenz des Autors folgend, wird in der vorliegenden Arb...

  • A Study Guide for John Updike's "A & P" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for John Updike's "A & P"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for John Updike's "A & P", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study gu...

  • The Poorhouse Fair sinopsis y comentarios

    The Poorhouse Fair

    John Updike

    “Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art.”The N...

  • A Study Guide for John Updike's "The Slump" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for John Updike's "The Slump"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for John Updike's "The Slump", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study gu...

  • Notwithstanding sinopsis y comentarios

    Notwithstanding

    Louis de Bernières

    Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a...

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    Honeydew

    Edith Pearlman

    'Prepare to be dazzled. Edith Pearlman's latest, elating work confirms her place as one of the great modern shortstory writers' Sunday Times'A genius of the short story' Guardian'A...

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    The Portrait of a Lady

    Henry James & Geoffrey Moore

    When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the fr...

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    The Life of Saul Bellow

    Zachary Leader

    The final volume of the definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.‘A moving testament to one of the last century’s greatest writers’ Sunday TimesAt fo...

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    The Shorter Poems

    Edmund Spenser & Richard McCabe

    Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets.Spenser's sh...

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    The Violet Hour

    Katie Roiphe

    The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists as they come to terms with the reality of approaching deathKatie Roiphe's extraordinary book is filled with intimate and ...

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    The Editor

    Sara B. Franklin

    Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th centuryincluding Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plathfi...

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    The Actual

    Saul Bellow

    The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.

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    The Fame Lunches

    Daphne Merkin

    A wideranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary cultureFrom one of America's most insightful and independentminded critics co...

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    The Modern Library

    Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin

    For Colm Toíbín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their sele...

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    Bored of the Rings

    The Harvard Lampoon

    From the legendary comedic scholars who illuminated the tour de force Twilight so brilliantly in the New York Times bestselling Nightlight comes The Hunger Pains, a hilarious sendu...

  • Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993 sinopsis y comentarios

    Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993

    John Updike

    “The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exerciseth...

  • The Cambridge Companion to John Updike sinopsis y comentarios

    The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

    Stacey Olster

    John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by every...

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    Stigmatisierung und Hautkrankheit Psoriasis in John Updike

    Sandro Stark

    Als junger Schriftsteller plante John Updike eine Tetralogie, die eine Hommage an Pennsylvania sein sollte, den Bundesstaat, in dem er aufgewachsen war. Der erste Teil sollte in de...

  • John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews sinopsis y comentarios

    John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews

    James Plath

    life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his awardwinning novels in his home state. In John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews James Plath has compiled the first collection...

  • The Darts of Cupid sinopsis y comentarios

    The Darts of Cupid

    Edith Templeton

    The highlyacclaimed short story collection by the author of Gordon, the erotic novel banned for indecency in 1966In The Darts of Cupid, Edith Templeton gives a sweeping and intimat...

  • Always Looking sinopsis y comentarios

    Always Looking

    John Updike & Christopher Carduff

    A dazzling collection of “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) on artand the companion volume to the celebrated Just Looking and Still Lookingfrom one of the most gifted American w...

  • Flypaper sinopsis y comentarios

    Flypaper

    Robert Musil

    'They no longer hold themselves up with all their might, but sink a little and at that moment appear totally human'Of the very first rank of prose stylists, Robert Musil captures a...

  • A Study Guide for John Updike's "Toward the End of Time" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for John Updike's "Toward the End of Time"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for John Updike's "Toward the End of Time", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Novels for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise st...

  • The Table Comes First sinopsis y comentarios

    The Table Comes First

    Adam Gopnik

    Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every...

  • The Seducer's Diary sinopsis y comentarios

    The Seducer's Diary

    Søren Kierkegaard & Alastair Hannay

    Johannes is an aesthete, dedicated to creating the possibility of seduction through the careful manipulation of young women. He stealthily pursues the innocent Cordelia until she b...

  • Deception sinopsis y comentarios

    Deception

    Philip Roth

    'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York Times Book ReviewHe is a middleaged American writer called Philip; she is an articu...

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    Troilus and Criseyde

    Geoffrey Chaucer & Nevill Coghill

    Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful C...

  • The Big New Yorker Book of Cats sinopsis y comentarios

    The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

    The New Yorker Magazine, Haruki Murakami, Calvin Trillin & M.F.K. Fisher

    Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purrfect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions.This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in fu...

  • Just Talking: Eleanor Wachtel Interviews John Updike. sinopsis y comentarios

    Just Talking: Eleanor Wachtel Interviews John Updike.

    Queen's Quarterly

    Essays on Art Published six years ago, Just Looking is a richly illustrated gallery of 23 essays on the joys of art. It concludes with paintings and drawings by a number of famous ...

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    B & Me

    J.C. Hallman

    “A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir ab...

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    The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories

    Christopher Dolley

    PENGUIN BRINGS YOU THE FINEST SHORT STORIES BY THE GREATEST WRITERS 'The short story is enjoying a revival all the more encouraging when viewed against the gloom surrounding the fu...

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    The Human Stain

    Philip Roth

    'An extraordinary book bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday TelegraphPhilip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of pos...

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    John Gardner

    Barry Silesky

    For a decadefrom 1973 to 1982John Gardner was one of America's most famous writers and certainly its most flamboyantly opinionated. His 1973 novel, The Sunlight Dialogues, was on t...

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    The Dying Animal

    Philip Roth

    'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New StatesmanDavid Kepesh, whitehaired, and now in his sixti...

  • Study Guide to Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux by John Updike sinopsis y comentarios

    Study Guide to Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux by John Updike

    Intelligent Education

    A comprehensive study guide offering indepth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Updike, twotime Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction in 1982 and 1991. Titles...

  • Imagery and Technique in John Updike's 'Rabbit, Run' (1960) sinopsis y comentarios

    Imagery and Technique in John Updike's 'Rabbit, Run' (1960)

    Sirinya Pakditawan

    Perhaps the most revered Updike novels are his Rabbit tetralogy, comprised of four books that ran from 1959 to 1991, which detail the center of American life, i.e. the middle class...

  • Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike sinopsis y comentarios

    Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike

    John McTavish

    Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of the most serious writers of moder...

  • The Dean's December sinopsis y comentarios

    The Dean's December

    Saul Bellow

    Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. A...

  • The Complete Poems sinopsis y comentarios

    The Complete Poems

    R. Rebholz & Thomas Wyatt

    As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where everyone was uneasily subject to the royal whims ...

  • Selected Poems sinopsis y comentarios

    Selected Poems

    Brian Patten

    A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last fortyfive years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, th...

  • My Losing Season sinopsis y comentarios

    My Losing Season

    Pat Conroy

    In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nineyearold Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Orlando was another new hometown for a military kid who had spent his life transferring from...

  • Imagery and technique in John Updike's 'Rabbit, Run' (1960) sinopsis y comentarios

    Imagery and technique in John Updike's 'Rabbit, Run' (1960)

    Sirinya Pakditawan

    Perhaps the most revered Updike novels are his Rabbit tetralogy, comprised of four books that ran from 1959 to 1991, which detail the center of American life, i.e. the middle class...

  • The Wife sinopsis y comentarios

    The Wife

    Meg Wolitzer

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GLENN CLOSEA husband. A wife. A secret. Behind any great man, there’s always a greater woman.Joe and Joan Castleman are on an aeroplane, 35,000 ...

  • All Points North sinopsis y comentarios

    All Points North

    Simon Armitage

    'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday TimesAll Points North is partmemoir and partexcursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of...

  • The Facts sinopsis y comentarios

    The Facts

    Philip Roth

    How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after th...

  • Hocus Pocus sinopsis y comentarios

    Hocus Pocus

    Kurt Vonnegut

    'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and ...

  • Christmas at The New Yorker sinopsis y comentarios

    Christmas at The New Yorker

    The New Yorker, E. B. White, Sally Benson & S.J. Perelman

    From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheerplus the occasional comical coal in the stockingin one incomparable collection. Sublime an...

  • Essential Novelists - Arthur Morrison sinopsis y comentarios

    Essential Novelists - Arthur Morrison

    Arthur Morrison & August Nemo

    Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most ...

  • A Study Guide for John Updike's "Rabbit, Run" sinopsis y comentarios

    A Study Guide for John Updike's "Rabbit, Run"

    The Gale Group

    A study guide for John Updike's "Rabbit, Run", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Novels for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study guide i...

  • Io odio John Updike sinopsis y comentarios

    Io odio John Updike

    Giordano Tedoldi

    Uscito per la prima volta nel 2006, Io odio John Updike è stato l’esordio di Giordano Tedoldi. Libro di culto, oscuro, inquietante, popolato di personaggi misteriosi, immerso in at...