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...Fiction John Updike lampoons Jack Kerouac: "Gogi Himmelman of the tattered old greenasgrass knickers . . . and the vastiest, most vortical, most insatiable eyes." But savagery is not a one-way street. Updike's Rabbit is roasted by Ian Duncan: "Big Chicken Henderson scoops and whittles at the space beneath his chin with a checkout-counter razor." After caricatures of versifiers like Shakespeare ("To be or not to be; that is the bare bodkin") and novelists like Jane Austen ("Are you not happy in Hertfordshire, Mr. Raskolnikov?"), Editor William Zaranka confesses, "The avowed purpose of both volumes is the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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