Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.
"The Music School "is a place of learning, in which a sheltered South Dakota boy meets his roommate at Harvard, a rebel with whom he will have a violent--and ambiguous--physical encounter; a warring married couple, Richard and Joan Maple, try and try again to find solace in sex; and Henry Bech, an unprolific American writer publicizing himself far from home, enjoys a moment of improbable, poignant, untranslatable connection with a Bulgarian poetess. In these twenty short stories, each evidence of his early mastery, John Updike brings us a world--a world of fumbling, pausing, and beginning again; a world sensitively felt and lovingly expressed; a world whose pianissimo""harmonies demand new subtleties of fictional form.… (meer)
Naples, FL 2023 #1 - I spent way too much time on this book.....but i did enjoy it. Updike has a sparseness of language in these short stories, yet he speaks mountains. Overall, these were about relationships....imperfect relationships......stuck in the mud relationships, perhaps?. Not an overly upbeat book, but more often than not, glimmers of hope.....or at least peaceful acceptance of situations flickered at the ends. I really enjoyed 'Giving Blood,' 'The Stare,' 'The Rescue,' & 'The Hermit.' Of course the story after which the collection was named, 'The Music School,' which i looked forward to thinking it would be a highlight, sadly left me cold.....as did 'The Bulgarian Poetess,,' 'Four Sides of One Story,' & 'Avec la Bebe-sitter.' Some other worthy honorable mentions exist as well. Liked something in almost all.....did not really love any.....no regrets. ( )
Personal favourites from this collection are: 'The Bulgarian Poetess", a story that features Henry Bech, a star in Updike's fiction, who experiences a brief and impossible love on the opposite side of the world: "A Madman" is a good story about Oxford and its human curiosities: and "The Hermit". However, not all the stories have sustained the passage of time. One particular low point is "At A Bar in Charlotte Amalie"
Pain and guilt, as a result of adultery feature in several stories; so does the mysterious lives of our children. These both are regular themes in Updike's fiction.
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Now, of the music summoned by the birth/That separates us from the wind and sea,/Yet leaves us in them, until earth becomes,/By being so much of the things we are,/Gross effigy and simulacrum, none/Gives motion to perfection more serene/Than yours, out of your imperfections wrought,/Most rare, or ever of more kindred air/In the laborious weaving that you wear. --Wallace Stevens, "To the One of Fictive Music."
Opdracht
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Do you remember a fragrance girls acquire in autumn? ("In Football Season")
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In the end each life wears its events with a geological inevitability. ("The Music School")
It is caring that makes mysteries. As you grow indifferent, they lift. ("The Indian")
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Then they came rapidly toward him, and there was a thumping, a bumbling, a clumsy crushing clamor. ("The Hermit")
"The Music School "is a place of learning, in which a sheltered South Dakota boy meets his roommate at Harvard, a rebel with whom he will have a violent--and ambiguous--physical encounter; a warring married couple, Richard and Joan Maple, try and try again to find solace in sex; and Henry Bech, an unprolific American writer publicizing himself far from home, enjoys a moment of improbable, poignant, untranslatable connection with a Bulgarian poetess. In these twenty short stories, each evidence of his early mastery, John Updike brings us a world--a world of fumbling, pausing, and beginning again; a world sensitively felt and lovingly expressed; a world whose pianissimo""harmonies demand new subtleties of fictional form.
)
Google Books — Bezig met laden...
(3.6)
1