Rabbit, Run!
I'm trying to remember what Michael Silverblatt said to John Updike the other day on "Bookworm" about Updike's "Rabbit" books. Something like this:
"The character of Rabbit Angstrom shows us what it's like to be against society while still a part of it. A major theme in Western literature."
and
"He shows us how we face the unbearable 'dailyness' of living. How we must suffer through it, how we have a responsibility to do so."
Something like that.
I was thinking the other day that the closest I've come to reading a John Updike novel was when I watched the movie HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE, based on his novel of the same name. Then I remembered John Irving wrote that. All of the Updike "Rabbit" novels (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest) were recently named (by someone, I don't know who) as being four of the greatest books of the past 25 years, even though he started them about four decades ago. Maybe it's time I read of one them.
Who names their kid Rabbit anyway?
"The character of Rabbit Angstrom shows us what it's like to be against society while still a part of it. A major theme in Western literature."
and
"He shows us how we face the unbearable 'dailyness' of living. How we must suffer through it, how we have a responsibility to do so."
Something like that.
I was thinking the other day that the closest I've come to reading a John Updike novel was when I watched the movie HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE, based on his novel of the same name. Then I remembered John Irving wrote that. All of the Updike "Rabbit" novels (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest) were recently named (by someone, I don't know who) as being four of the greatest books of the past 25 years, even though he started them about four decades ago. Maybe it's time I read of one them.
Who names their kid Rabbit anyway?
posted by Chai on Life! at 12:31 PM
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