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Livres anciens et modernes

Updike, John

The Centaur

Fawcett Crest, 1964

5,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1964
Lieu d'édition
New York
Auteur
Updike, John
Éditeurs
Fawcett Crest
Thème
Ficton American
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

"The story concerns George Caldwell, a school teacher, and his son Peter, outside of Alton (i.e., Reading), Pennsylvania. The novel explores the relationship between the depressive Caldwell and his anxious son. One thing George and Peter share is the desire to get out, to escape their hometown. Updike drew on the myths of antiquity in an attempt to turn a modern and common scene into something more profound, a meditation on life and man's relationship to nature and eternity. George is both the Centaur Chiron and Prometheus (some readers might see George's son Peter as Prometheus), Mr. Hummel, the automobile mechanic, is Hephaestus (AKA Vulcan); and so forth. The novel's structure is unusual; the narrative shifts.from describing the characters as George, Vera, and the rest, to the Centaur, Venus, and so forth" Neat tight copy

Edizione: first pbk.ed.