John Updike

Villages / Χωριά

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John Updike’s twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a partner, Ed Mervine, the successful firm of E-O Data, which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River. Owen’s education (Bildung) is not merely technical but liberal, as the humanity of his three villages, especially that of their female citizens, works to disengage him from his youthful innocence. As a child he early felt an abyss of calamity beneath the sunny surface quotidian, yet also had a dreamlike sense of leading a charmed existence. The women of his life, including his wives, Phyllis and Julia, shed what light they can. At one juncture he reflects, “How lovely she is, naked in the dark! How little men deserve the beauty and mercy of women!” His life as a sexual being merges with the communal shelter of villages: “A village is woven of secrets, of truths better left unstated, of houses with less window than opaque wall.”

Ο Όουεν Μακένζι έχει περάσει τη ζωή του σε χωριά και κωμοπόλεις της επαρχίας. Καθώς η στατική πραγματικότητα δίνει τη θέση της σε ζωηρές αναμνήσεις, ο Όουεν αναπολεί τη διαδρομή του, από χαρισματικό φτωχόπαιδο σε αυτοδημιούργητο μεγαλοεπιχειρηματία, αλλά -κυρίως- από συνεσταλμένο παρθένο σε πολύπλαγκτο εραστή των αμερικανικών χωριών. Μέσα από μια υποδειγματικά ζωγραφισμένη ιστορία αισθηματικής -και σεξουαλικής- αγωγής, μέσα από αυτό το χρονικό προσωπικής πορνογραφίας και ανθρώπινης διάψευσης, με τα “Χωριά”, ο μεγάλος αυτός ανατόμος της αμερικανικής ψυχής επιστρέφει στο αγαπημένο του θέμα: την αθωότητα και την ανωμαλία που κρύβει ο έρωτας των ανθρώπων.

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