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Updike's Sheltered Self |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / LITERARY CRITICISM |
| Author: Larry Woiwode |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 9,807 Words, 57,243 Characters |
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In 1964, when I was living in a rented room in New York City, I read my first Updike novel, The Centaur. I can still recall the dimensional sparkle that rose from the objects of that dingy room as I descended into Updike's prose. I went back to his earlier books and caught up, not such a difficult task at the time, just as The Olinger Stories came out. The year I was married, Assorted Prose and Of the Farm appeared, and in 1968, when my first daughter was born, Couples began climbing the best-seller list. I could date the appearance of each Updike book in relationship to my life, but rather than seem a candidate for another exiguous and uxorious (two Updike words), parasitically symbiotic U and I, I'll pause at these last novels, Of the Farm and Couples, because they represent the watershe...
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...epeat after Updike, From a higher, inhuman point of view, only truth, however harsh, is holy. This is what Scripture teaches, and the reason it claims to be, on its self-attesting terms, authoritative and holy. And it's here that I leave Updike, in his Shillington incarnation, staring out from his shelter toward the grace of the falling rain, unmoving in his assurance that he will not die. vbcrlf
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