Self-Consciousness

By: John Updike

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Paperback | 13 March 2012

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John Updike's memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his foreword states, "to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world." In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has been hair-raisingly honest, matchlessly precise, and self-effacingly humorous. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, and beyond self-importance, into sheer wonder at the miracle of existence.

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"Fascinating . . . These memoirs, often unabashedly philosophical, take us inside Updike's mind in the way that biography almost never can."--Chicago Tribune "Opulent . . . charming . . . [Updike's] best writing, like Nabokov's, is the prose of rapture."--The New York Times Book Review "Poignant . . . wonderfully crafted recollections . . . One completes this book wanting to convey some signal of gratitude, some affectionate reader's embrace, to this good boy of a grown man who has striven so earnestly and masterly to describe life."--Chicago Sun-Times

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