John Updike

**John Hoyer Updike** (Shillington, Pensilvanija, 18.3. 1932. - Danvers, Massachusetts, 27.1. 2009.) bio je američki pisac. Updikeovo najpotznatije djelo je Rabbit ciklus (*[[Rabbit, Run]]*; *[[Rabbit Redux]]*; *[[Rabbit Is Rich]]*; *[[Rabbit At Rest]]* i *[[Rabbit Remembered]]*). *Rabbit is Rich* i *Rabbit at Rest* su osovojila Pulitzerove nagrade. Poznat po tome što voli opisivati "američke protestantske gradiće sa srednjom klasom," Updike je poznat po stilu i plodnom opusu, koji se sastoji od 22 objavljena romana, više od deset zbirki novela, kao i poeziji, književnoj kritici i dječjim knjigama. Stotina priča, recenzija i pjesama su se pojavljivale u *[[The New Yorker]]u* od 1950-ih. Većina djela se bavi seksom, vjerom i smrću, te njihovim međuodnosima.

## Književna djela
### Romani o Rabbitu
* (1960) *[[Rabbit, Run]]*
* (1971) *[[Rabbit Redux]]*
* (1981) *[[Rabbit Is Rich]]*
* (1990) *[[Rabbit At Rest]]*
* (2000) *[[Rabbit Remembered]]* (pripovjetka u zbirci *[[Licks of Love]]*)

### Knjige o Bechu
* (1970) *[[Bech, a Book]]*
* (1982) *[[Bech Is Back]]*
* (1998) *[[Bech at Bay]]*

### Knjige o Buchananu
* (1974) *[[Buchanan Dying]]* (drama)
* (1992) *[[Memories of the Ford Administration]]* (roman)

### Ostali romani
* (1959) *[[The Poorhouse Fair]]*
* (1963) *[[The Centaur]]*
* (1965) *[[Of The Farm]]*
* (1968) *[[Couples]]*
* (1975) *[[A Month Of Sundays]]*
* (1977) *[[Marry Me]]* (A Romance)
* (1978) *[[The Coup (roman)|The Coup]]*
* (1984) *[[The Witches of Eastwick]]*
* (1986) *[[Roger's Version]]*
* (1988) *[[S. (roman)|S.]]*
* (1994) *[[Brazil (roman)|Brazil]]*
* (1996) *[[In the Beauty of the Lilies]]*
* (1997) *[[Toward the End of Time]]*
* (2000) *[[Gertrude and Claudius]]*
* (2002) *[[Seek My Face]]*
* (2004) *[[Villages (roman)|Villages]]*
* (2006) *[[Terrorist (roman)|Terrorist]]*

### Zbirke novela
* (1959) *[[The Same Door]]*
* (1962) *[[Pigeon Feathers]]*
* (1962) *[[A&P (priča)|A&P]]*
* (1964) *[[Olinger Stories]]* (izbor)
* (1966) *[[The Music School]]*
* (1972) *[[Museums And Women]]*
* (1979) *[[Problems (priče)|Problems]]*
* (1979) *[[Too Far To Go]]* (zbirka novela o jednoj prodioci)
* (1987) *[[Trust Me (knjiga)|Trust Me]]*
* (1994) *[[The Afterlife]]*
* (2000) *[[The Best American Short Stories of the Century]]* (urednik)
* (2001) *[[Licks of Love]]*
* (2003) *[[The Early Stories: 1953-1975]]*

### Poezija
* (1958) *[[Ex-Basketball Player]]*
* (1958) *[[The Carpentered Hen]]*
* (1963) *[[Telephone Poles]]*
* (1969) *[[Midpoint (poems)|Midpoint]]*
* (1977) *[[Tossing and Turning]]*
* (1985) *[[Facing Nature]]*
* (1993) *[[Kollected Poems 1953-1993]]*
* (2001) **

### Publicistika, eseji i kritika
* (1965) *[[Assorted Prose]]*
* (1975) *[[Picked-Up Pieces]]*
* (1983) *[[Hugging The Shore]]*
* (1989) *[[Self-Consciousness: Memoirs]]* 
* (1989) *[[Just Looking (knjiga)|Just Looking]]*
* (1991) *[[Odd Jobs (book)|Odd Jobs]]*
* (1993) *[[The Disposable Rocket]]*
* (1996) *[[Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf]]*
* (1999) *[[More Matter]]*
* (2005) *[[Still Looking: Essays on American Art]]*
* (2007) *[[Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism]]*

### Djeje knjige
* (1962) *[[The Magic Flute (book)|The Magic Flute]]*
* (1964) *[[The Ring (book)|The Ring]]*
* (1965) *[[A Child's Calendar]]*
* (1969) *[[Bottom's Dream]]*
* (1995) *[[A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects]]*
* (2006) *[[The Twelve Terrors of Christmas]]*

## Reference

## Vanjske veze

* The Centaurian  - Website dedicated to information about Updike
* Brief biography  at Kirjasto
* New York Times page on Updike reviews
* Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike
* "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" (The New Yorker, 1960)
* John Updike interviewed by Ginny Dougary  (2002)
* "Superman" by John Updike
* "The Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike
* In Depth with John Updike from CSPAN Dec. 2005