John Updike: Gertrude And Claudius

Cover: 9780140290905 | Gertrude And Claudius | John Updike | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2001

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Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen disaffected prince.

Über den Autor

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies; Toward the End of Time; Gertrude and Claudius; and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories and Licks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993 brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his Selected Poems is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.

His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.

Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780140290905
ISBN-10:	0140290907
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Updike, John
Hersteller:	Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	John Updike
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.07.2001
Gewicht:	0,272 kg