Updike lost me with this oneWhat was he thinking?
>>24988724Looking back on these books it seems like Updike just wanted to write a Proustian novel with a dumb american middle class goy protagonist instead of the usual upper class eurojew faggot mc
>>24988779I did enjoy the series, but there doesn't seem to be much else to it besides said subversion of the Proustian novel
>>24988780I thought the characterization was phenomenal. And some real lovely bits of prose. The first and last installments are the best imo. I'd put them against any American novels
In Redux, Updike lets his affinities for cuckoldry, wifeswapping, and chubby girls take second stage to what is clearly a deeper-held and more private fantasy: when the underage hippy girl gets BLACKED as Harry reads aloud the works of Frederick Douglas, it's obvious that this is Updike's deepest and darkest fantasy put to paper.
>>24988724updike?
>>24988724What's Updike?
>>24989305nm hbu
>>24988724Seems like Updike regretted being born too late to indulge in hippiedom and free love, so he did it vicariously, through his self-insert.
>>24988724>lampoons the 60s hippie, race equality and feminist movements through the POV of a run of the mill white guy who is disadvantaged by all of themThese have all been held up as golden calves by the open society project you're currently living in and any minor critique of them makes you uncomfortable as a reflex.
>>24988724I hear it's all just the boomer story and he was reflecting their journey or something. >>24989305I'm good. What's up wit you?
