John Updike

A collection both intimate and generous of the eloquent, insightful, beautifully written prose works that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009.This collection of miscellaneous prose opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are …

Gertrude and Claudius is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in the medieval Denmark depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twelfth-century Historiae Danicae, but incorporates extra plot elements added by François de …

Note sul volume: La provincia americana, le coppie fedeli e infedeli, o pluridivorziati, i genitori, i figli, e ora anche i nonni e i nipoti. E' una società diversa dalla nostra, ma neanche troppo, e si presta a osservazioni che sempre rivelano l'acutezza psicologica dell'autore. RARO