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Cosmic Defiance - Updike's Kierkegaard and the 'Maples Stories' (Hardcover)
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Cosmic Defiance - Updike's Kierkegaard and the 'Maples Stories' (Hardcover)
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John Updike once wrote that many of his works are ""illustrations
of Kierkegaard,"" and yet no current study provides an extended,
convincing reason why this is so, why Updike came to live by Søren
Kierkegaard's ideas. This study does, telling the story of Updike's
life-altering encounter withFear and Trembling in his early career,
and tracing the subsequent evolution of Updike's complex and
coherent theology. Examining Updike's many claims about
Kierkegaard's life and work, and casting those claims into debate
with Kierkegaard's best scholars and critics, this book explains
why Kierkegaard and his intellectual inheritors Karl Barth and
Miguel de Unamuno provided Updike with a reason to live, and a
vocation as an antinomian Christian writer. The study pursues the
same question Updike did: how are identity and action bound up with
faith in God? The eighteen intensely autobiographical Maples
stories, chapters in the tale of a twenty-two-year marriage that
begins hopefully but ends in divorce, epitomize the theological
preoccupations Updike learned from Kierkegaard--becoming an
authentic self and learning to love the neighbor creatively rather
than compulsively.
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