![]() ![]() Though usually family men, they never really love anybody - and, though always heterosexual to the point of satyriasis, they especially don’t love women. They never belong to any sort of larger unit or community or cause. ![]() The characters written into existence by Updike, Mailer, and Roth, he argued, are ‘always incorrigibly narcissistic, philandering, self-contemptuous, self-pitying and deeply alone, alone the way only a solipsist can be alone. Entitled, in characteristically unapologetic style, ‘John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?’, Wallace attacked the “Great Male Narcissists” of post-war fiction. In 1997, David Foster Wallace wrote a scathingly piercing review of John Updike’s Midpoint for The New York Observer. ![]()
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