/lit/ - Literature

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Im a huge Updike fan, Roger's Version, The last 2 Rabbit books and In the Beauty of the Lilies are some of the best 20th century literature has to offer. He was also a great critic (as Roth wasn't), a terrific writer of short stories and essays on art. For a few years he had sort of taken over my life. I would pick my books based on his recommendations, I would try and imitate his prose style - a particularly hard task given it's so delicate and tight - and even try and pick up golf when an opportunity presented. Even his Poetry, which i stayed away from for years, is not bad.

He was perfect on religion (and atheism) , great on sex and women, and, as the best writers always are, a terrific noticer of things.

His obscurity is to me like private secret, my own author that i dont want to share with the world.

Go on

If im honest about it he's probably my favorite 20'th century author. More so then Nabokov, Joyce, Kafka or Mann. As a novelist, a short story writer and even as a stylist, he is clearer and more precise then any of them.

And he knows it. Of curse he looks smug.