John Updikes fiction

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In Of the Farm, the identity quest is over. There remains only the necessity to reconcile with the guilty feeling for having had the courage to abandon a wrong direction. One may say that the protagonist's quest is for reconciliation between past ant present.

The fact that he turned his literary talent into an advertising consultant job seems like a betrayal for his mother. We mean to defend his choice, motivating like Bachelard that literary reverie always continues a normal dream. Only that for Joey's mother it is a dream of ambition literature continues, while for Joey, literary reverie is his basis for professional success.

Joey has the courage to assert himself and his character such as Bachelard defined it: an individual defense system against society, a process of opposition to society, which is mainly confirmed in solitude, that is to say, away from the overwhelming atmosphere of home land. Joey is what Bachelard defined in Apa si visele, as an active man: his reveries are constructive, they are not the reveries of a dreamer who flees society like Rabbit, but meaningful ones, born out of challenge and the reveries of power.

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Cuprins

Introduction.......................3

Chapter I Rabbit, Run - The Quest and the Absurd....................8

Chapter II Rabbit is Rich -Representations of America between Idealism and conformism...................24

Chapter III In the Beauty of the Lilies - Narcissism and Simulacras of Initiation.....................39

Chapter IV Of the Farm - Spaces of Non Freedom......................60

Conclusion......................68


Bibliography....................75