Frases de John Updike
John Updike
Data de nascimento: 18. Março 1932
Data de falecimento: 27. Janeiro 2009
Outros nomes: John Hoyer Updike, Con Apdayk
John Hoyer Updike foi um romancista, poeta, contista, crítico de arte e crítico literário estadunidense.
Formou-se na Universidade de Harvard em 1954 e passou um ano na Inglaterra, no Knox Fellowsship, na Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, em Oxford. De 1955 a 1957, trabalhou na The New Yorker, contribuindo com contos, poemas e críticas de livros.
Tornou-se famoso e reconhecido mundialmente com sua séria de romances Rabbit, iniciada em 1960, que seguem a vida do jogador de basquetebol Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, escritos num período de mais de trinta anos e pelos quais ganhou por duas vezes o Prêmio Pullitzer.
Também de sua autoria, As Bruxas de Eastwick, escrito em 1984, tornou-se um best-seller e grande sucesso no cinema, no filme homônimo estrelado por Jack Nicholson e Cher. Já o romance Pai-Nosso Computador de 1986 aborda a questão da existência de Deus em face da ciência e tecnologia.
Em sua obra constam doze livros de ficção, cinco volumes de poesia e uma peça de teatro.
Considerado um dos grandes romancistas contemporâneos norte-americanos, faleceu em 27 de janeiro de 2009, vítima de câncer do pulmão, em Beverly, no estado de Massachussets, onde residia. Wikipedia
Citações John Updike
„A América é uma grande conspiração para fazer você feliz.“
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy
The early stories, 1953-1975 - Página 413, John Updike - A.A. Knopf, 2003, ISBN 1400040728, 9781400040728 - 838 páginas
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Couples - Página 456, John Updike - Knopf, 1968 - 458 páginas
„Sexo é como dinheiro, apenas o demais é suficiente.“
Sex is like money, only too much is enough
Couples - Página 437, John Updike - Knopf, 1968 - 458 páginas
„The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.“
— John Updike, livro Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run (1960)
„Sex is like money; only too much is enough.“
— John Updike, livro Couples
Fonte: Couples (1968), Ch. 5
Fonte: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6
Fonte: My Father's Tears and Other Stories
„Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.“
Fonte: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 3
— John Updike, livro The Centaur
The Centaur (1963)
Contexto: I miss only, and then only a little, in the late afternoon, the sudden white laughter that like heat lightning bursts in an atmosphere where souls are trying to serve the impossible. My father for all his mourning moved in the atmosphere of such laughter. He would have puzzled you. He puzzled me. His upper half was hidden from me, I knew best his legs.
„It was true of my generation, that the movies were terribly vivid and instructive.“
Salon interview (2000)
Contexto: It was true of my generation, that the movies were terribly vivid and instructive. There were all kinds of things you learned. Like the 19th century novels, you saw how other social classes lived — especially the upper classes. So in a funny way, they taught you manners almost. But also moral manners. The gallantry of a Gary Cooper or an Errol Flynn or Jimmy Stewart. It was ethical instruction of a sort that the church purported to be giving you, but in a much less digestible form. Instead of these remote, crabbed biblical verses, you had contemporary people acting out moral dilemmas. Just the grace, the grace of those stars — not just the dancing stars, but the way they all moved with a certain grace. All that sank deep into my head, and my soul.
Salon interview (2000)
Contexto: In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare's plays. It's no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.
On London, in “A Madman,” New Yorker (22 December 1962)
„His upper half was hidden from me, I knew best his legs.“
— John Updike, livro The Centaur
The Centaur (1963)
Contexto: I miss only, and then only a little, in the late afternoon, the sudden white laughter that like heat lightning bursts in an atmosphere where souls are trying to serve the impossible. My father for all his mourning moved in the atmosphere of such laughter. He would have puzzled you. He puzzled me. His upper half was hidden from me, I knew best his legs.
