约翰·厄普代克是美国当代著名的文学大师,他的作品题材多样,广泛涉及小说、诗歌、剧本、艺术评论等诸多领域。在小说创作领域,他的成就是最辉煌的。他的很多作品都是有关美国中产阶级小人物的日常生活和家庭琐事的,其间充斥着痛苦、道德困惑以及无时不在的对死亡的恐惧。他作品中所记录的美国社会生活的“真实侧面”、特别 John Updike is a famous American contemporary master of literature. His works are varied in his subjects and cover a wide range of fields including novels, poems, scripts, art criticisms and so on. In the field of novel creation, his achievements are the most brilliant. Much of his work is about everyday life and family chores in America’s middle-class minorities, filled with pain, moral perplexity and an ever-present fear of death. The “true side” of American social life recorded in his works is special