First published in the New Yorker in 1975 and included in Prize Stories 1976: The O. Henry Awards, “Separating” was incorporated with other stories featuring Joan and Richard Maple in Too Far to Go (1979), a short story cycle chronicling… Read More ›
John Updike
Analysis of John Updike’s The Persistence of Desire
The Persistence of Desire was first published in the July 11, 1959, issue of the New Yorker, was republished in Olinger Stories: A Selection (1964), and is collected in John Updike, The Early Stories 1953– 1975 (New York: Knopf, 2003)…. Read More ›
Analysis of John Updike’s Stories
From the beginning of his career as a writer, John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) demonstrated his strengths as a brilliant stylist and a master of mood and tone whose linguistic facility has sometimes overshadowed the dimensions… Read More ›
Picaresque Novels and Novelists
The Spanish words picaresque and picaro achieved currency in Spain shortly after 1600. Today they are terms in literary criticism, sometimes misused because of the vague meaning attached to them. The revival of the genre in the twentieth century was… Read More ›
Analysis of John Updike’s Novels
A writer with John Updike’s (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) versatility and range, whose fiction reveals a virtual symphonic richness and complexity, offers readers a variety of keys or themes with which to explore his work. The growing… Read More ›
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