6/20/2023 0 Comments The widows of eastwick![]() ![]() and Roger’s Version, all related to The Scarlet Letter, its characters or its milieu.) As such, they are great fun to read, but, perhaps because Updike believes that veering away from his suburban realism should allow him greater freedom with his themes, the arabesque leads him to having it both ways. Later that evening, in front of the audience, he confessed a special fondness for his works of this type.īoth The Witches of Eastwick and its sequel The Widows of Eastwick, here under review, are arabesques. (A term from Poe that, though he never defined it for us, suggests a playful re-imagining or distortion, emphasis on “playful”.) I referred to novels such as Brazil, S., and Gertrude and Claudius, books that took Updike away from the suburban setting of most of his work into more imaginary, less real territory. I once had the opportunity before a reading to suggest to John Updike that I particularly admired what I called his “arabesques”. ![]()
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