http://cultureby.com/2009/01/john-updike-american-anthropologist.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 23 May 2012 20:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cultureby.com/2009/01/john-updike-american-anthropologist.html/comment-page-1#comment-1030 Tomas Hrivnak Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:11:49 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=137#comment-1030 John Updike was exotic. For us behind the iron curtain, at least. Reading Updike at the university in Czechoslovakia in 1988 felt - well - subversive. There wasn't supposed to be any "normality" in the life of the American middle class. Of course, we were not fooled by what was at that time a crumbling ideological construct of "imperialist America", but somehow our adoration of the "American way of life" was equally hollow. Updike came as a revelation. Today, I became to belileve that what we fought for back in 1989 was this kind of normality which, very quickly, took over our lives as well. John Updike was exotic. For us behind the iron curtain, at least. Reading Updike at the university in Czechoslovakia in 1988 felt – well – subversive. There wasn’t supposed to be any “normality” in the life of the American middle class. Of course, we were not fooled by what was at that time a crumbling ideological construct of “imperialist America”, but somehow our adoration of the “American way of life” was equally hollow. Updike came as a revelation. Today, I became to belileve that what we fought for back in 1989 was this kind of normality which, very quickly, took over our lives as well.

]]> http://cultureby.com/2009/01/john-updike-american-anthropologist.html/comment-page-1#comment-1029 coffee Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:20:40 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=137#comment-1029 John Updike's passing is sad, but he left a ton of awesome work. "Immortality is nontransferrable" he said appropriately. John Updike’s passing is sad, but he left a ton of awesome work. “Immortality is nontransferrable” he said appropriately.

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