图说约翰·厄普代克编辑本段回目录
Man of Letters
John Updike was a Pulitzer-prize winning author of novels, verse, essays and criticism. He is perhaps best known for a series of novels about an ordinary American man named Harry Rabbit Angstrom. Known informally as the Rabbit series, the books trace the sad life of an undistinguished middle American against the great events of the last half-century.
文字大师
约翰·厄普代克，普利策奖得主，小说家、诗人、散文家和评论家。他最著名的小说系列讲述的是一个名叫哈利·兔子·安斯特朗的普通美国人，俗称《兔子四部曲》，以上半个世纪的大事件为背景，记录了一个平庸的中产阶级人物的空虚人生。
Childhood
Raised in Pennsylvania, Updike, nine years old in this photo, grew up as a clever, stuttering child, and went to college at Harvard.
童年
厄普代克在宾夕法尼亚长大，照片摄于9岁时。他少年时代聪颖、口吃，后进入哈佛大学。
Juggling
In his career, Updike worked in an extraordinary range of genres, including magic realism and science fiction, but was perhaps most admired for his short stories, of which he produced several hundred, most of them appearing in the New Yorker.
多才多艺
在其职业生涯中，厄普代克的作品所涉体裁极为广泛，包括魔幻现实主义和科幻小说，但最受欢迎的也许是短篇小说，他创作了几百篇短篇小说，多数发表于《纽约客》杂志。
Opposite
In creating his most celebrated character, Harry Angstrom, Updike imagined a person unlike himself. Rabbit was a vulgar, crass, lusty, middle-class salesman whom Updike used to anatomize and dramatize the great American spiritual and cultural crises.
对立面
创作他最著名的人物哈利·安斯特朗时，厄普代克想像出了一个不同于自己的人。兔子是个粗俗、好色的中产阶级推销员，厄普代克用他来生动地剖析美国精神与文化的深刻危机。
Family
The author and his first wife had four children. The couple divorced in 1976 and Updike remarried.
家庭
作家与首任妻子育有四个子女，二人于1976年离婚，厄普代克再婚。
Kaleidoscopic
Updike's hallmark was his glittering, gloriously vivid style. He had an extraordinary talent for spotting detail, for capturing the slightest shift in light or in a character's mood.
文字万花筒
厄普代克的文字风格华丽、生动。他在铺陈细节、捕捉最细微的光线变化或人物的情绪波动方面，具有非凡的天赋。
Prolific
At the beginning of his career, Updike set himself the task of publishing one book a year, and he more or less lived up to that commitment until his very final years. He is the author of 25 novels and more than a dozen short story collections.
多产作家
文字生涯之初，厄普代克为自己设定的目标是每年出版一本书，除了人生的最后几年，他基本上实现了计划。其作品包括25部小说和十几部短篇小说集。
At Home
For most of his career, Updike worked out of his homes in rural Massachusetts.
乡居
职业生涯的大部分时间，厄普代克在马萨诸塞州的乡村居所写作。
Observer
"My subject is the American Protestant small town middle class," Updike told an interviewer in 1966. "I like middles. It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules."
观察家
1966 年，厄普代克在一次访谈中说：“我笔下的人物是美国小镇的中产阶级新教徒，我喜欢中产阶级，正是在中产阶级身上，存在着内心的极端冲突，而含糊暧昧贯穿始终。”
