Picked-up Pieces (sbírka próz)

In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one word could sum up the young critic’s approach to books and their authors it would be “generosity”: “Better to praise and share,” he says in his Foreword, “than to blame and ban.” And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries.

Brož, menší 8°, 510 stran. V angličtině.

Vydání: Fawcett Crest, New York 1989.

Stav knihy: Velmi slušný stav, obálka zašpiněná a natržená, jinak uvnitř dobrý stav.