John Updike's "Tomb" for His Father, Wesley: On Rereading The Centaur
Résumé
Among John Updike's many autobiographical and autofictional narratives, those dedicated to his father, Wesley, have a consistent base note of love, gratitude, and sadness. Though Updike spoke of The Centaur as "my truest and gayest book," it is the former superlative that predominates in the reading. What gaiety there is resonates more in the absurdist scenes and antic gesticulations refracted in both the mythical and the realistic chapters than in the overall lyrical atmosphere that stamps the narrative. And while the novel was published in 1963, nine years before Wesley Updike's death in 1972, The Centaur reads less as a living testimony than as an anticipatory eulogy.
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