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The Centaur is John Updike's third novel, it won the National Book Award in 1964, and is a loose retelling of the Greek myth of Chiron, noblest of all Centaurs. George Caldwell is Chiron. It is 1947 and George is unhappily though gratefully employed as a high school teacher in the small Pennsylvania town where some of Updike's novels are set.
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Describing The Centaur as “a poor novel irritatingly marred by good features” literary critic Jonathan Miller in The New York Review of Books writes: . In [a] sense it is another A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Updike’s didactic allegory suffers by contrast with the delicacy with which Joyce uses the myth of Daedalus...the book [is] damaged by the necessity which ...
Aug 3, 2012 · But Updike is really, really good at what he does, so he rarely fumbles those variables. THE CENTAUR is considered one of his best novels and rightfully so. It's both awesome and very "Updik-y". Well, first, it doesn't really have a plot. It's about the relationship in-between George and Peter, reflected through the relationship between Chiron ...
John Updike’s novel, The Centaur, was first published in 1963. The book is a semi-autobiographical work that explores the relationship between a father and son, as well as the struggles of growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. The novel is divided into two parts, with the first part focusing on the son, Peter ...
Aug 27, 1996 · WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and ...
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The Centaur is a novel by John Updike, published in 1963. Winner of the National Book Award, the novel uses the myths and legends of the ancient world in order to add gravitas to what would otherwise be a mundane, modern scenario. The story opens as George Caldwell, a teacher at Olinger High School in the 1940s, is wounded by an arrow in his ...
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About The Centaur. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus.
