Dialogue with Classic Literature

About This Novel

John Updike (1932-2009) was an influential writer in the American literary world in the 20th century. His creations are characterized by integrating social documentary, autobiography and fiction to present the customs and life of the American middle class. For this reason, Updike is known as the American genre writer after World War II. However, Updike is not an easy-to-read writer. His novels lack ups and downs of plot. The writer's profound knowledge, rich vocabulary, and changing religious concepts all increase the difficulty of reading the works. This book focuses on the concept of "dialogue" and strives to gain a macroscopic understanding of Updike's creative characteristics and literary status from the two levels of "inheritance" and "breakthrough". The first part of this book focuses on demonstrating the literary connection between Updike and Kierkegaard, Hawthorne, and Nabokov, and explores the different attitudes of writers towards religion, art, and life in different cultural and religious contexts; the second part focuses on several of Updike's reconstructed works, such as "The Scarlet Letter" trilogy, "Brazil", "Gertrude and Claudius", "Century", etc., To explore how he injects modern narrative techniques into dialogue with classics, and brings contemporary thinking to some universal issues. This book aims to show how Updike inherited and evolved important themes and archetypes in the European and American literary tradition, to clarify the connection between Updike and the European and American literary tradition; to examine the writer's reference to the new experience of European and American novel art in the 20th century, and to accurately grasp the writer's aesthetic personality from a historical perspective.

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