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John Hoyer Updike est un écrivain américain, auteur de romans, de nouvelles, de poésie et d'essais critiques sur l'art et la littérature. Après avoir accédé à la notoriété internationale avec son roman Le Centaure en 1963 , il rencontre un très grand succès public et critique avec sa tétralogie sur le personnage de Harry « Rabbit » Angstrom : Cœur de lièvre, Rabbit rattrapé, Rabbit est riche et Rabbit en paix, ces deux derniers volumes ayant chacun reçu le prix Pulitzer. John Updike est l'auteur de vingt-six romans et de centaines de nouvelles, de chroniques et de poèmes, travaux publiés en particulier régulièrement dans le New Yorker et la New York Review of Books, et qui ont donné lieu à plusieurs recueils. Il dépeint l'Amérique des petites villes, protestantes et bourgeoises, et accorde une importance récurrente aux thèmes universels du sexe, de la foi, de la mort, et à leurs entrelacements. Son œuvre abondante et variée, quoique souvent considérée comme inégale, vaut à John Updike d'être considéré comme l'un des écrivains américains les plus importants du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. mars 1932 – 27. janvier 2009  •  Autres noms John Hoyer Updike, Con Apdayk
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John Updike: Citations en anglais

“Tell me, Nelson, I'm just curious. How does it feel to have smoked up your parents' house in crack?”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.”

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Too Far To Go, foreword (1979)

“[Nelson, to Annabelle] "The misery of the world," he says, reaching into himself to overcome her resistance. "That's what I kept thinking during my group this morning – the pity of everything, all of us, these confused souls trying so pathetically hard to break out of the fog – to see through our compulsions, our needs as they chew us up…"”

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John Updike livre Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“Writers take words seriously — perhaps the last professional class that does — and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.”

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John Updike

Writers on Themselves (1986)

“…a sense of defeat the years have brought back to him, after what seemed for a while to be triumphs.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Late in the game as it is, you keep trying.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“…This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

"We never are," he dares to say.
Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“You don't know what you don't know.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Nelson, re. Annabelle] …"she wants what everybody wants. She wants love."”

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John Updike livre Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“[Nelson] "…One nice thing about Florida, it makes Pennsylvania look unspoiled."”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Harry having drawn at golf] The shape of his collapse clings to him. Who says the universe isn't soaked in disgrace?”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Thelma] "…We're too old to keep being foolish."”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The past is the past," Harry goes on, "you got to live in the present. … It's the only way to think. When you're my age, you'll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning.”

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Rabbit is Rich (1981)

“[Janice] Looking back from this distance, she can't think any more that Harry was all to blame for their early troubles, he had just been trying life on too: life and sex and making babies and finding out who you are.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”

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“How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time,” Problems and Other Stories (1979)

“… Cocaine. The stuff is everywhere.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[coming away from the doctor's after a check-up] Get interested is the advice, but in truth you are interested in less and less. It's Nature's way.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Ronnie to Nelson] "For a guy who snorted an entire car agency up his nose, you're one to talk about con games."”

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John Updike livre Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”

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“A Foreword for Younger Readers,” Assorted Prose (1965)

“Charlie asks her for a Perrier with lime. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. He says it's all the same to him. Fancy water is fancy water.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”

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John Updike

The New Yorker (November 1992)

“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”

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Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6

“At last, small witches, goblins, hags,
And pirates armed with paper bags,
Their costumes hinged on safety pins,
Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.”

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October, A Child's Calendar (1965)

“[Nelson] "… I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife."
"What are those?" Janice is truly interested; she has never heard a man spell it out.
He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't."”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“You can't say anything honest to women, they have minds like the FBI.”

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John Updike livre Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

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