Bech at bay - John Updike
KORTE INHOUD
Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previous
'Bech: A Book'(1970) and 'Bech is back' (1982), has become older but scarcely wiser. In tthese five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literrary world ever more cheerfully crass. He fightsintimations of annihilation in still-Communist Czechoslovakia, while promiscuously consorting with dissidents, apparatchiks, and Midwestern Republicans. Next, he succumbs to the tempatations of power by accepting the presidency of a quaint and cosseted honorary body patterned on the Académie Française. The, the reader finds him on trial in California and on a criminal rampage in a gothic Gotham, abetted by a nubile sidecick called Robin. Lastly, our septuagenerian veteran of the literary wars is rewarded with a coveted medal, stunning him into a well-deserved silence. It's not easy being Henry Bech in the post-Gutenb...
'Bech: A Book'(1970) and 'Bech is back' (1982), has become older but scarcely wiser. In tthese five new chapters from his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literrary world ever more cheerfully crass. He fightsintimations of annihilation in still-Communist Czechoslovakia, while promiscuously consorting with dissidents, apparatchiks, and Midwestern Republicans. Next, he succumbs to the tempatations of power by accepting the presidency of a quaint and cosseted honorary body patterned on the Académie Française. The, the reader finds him on trial in California and on a criminal rampage in a gothic Gotham, abetted by a nubile sidecick called Robin. Lastly, our septuagenerian veteran of the literary wars is rewarded with a coveted medal, stunning him into a well-deserved silence. It's not easy being Henry Bech in the post-Gutenb...
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