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John Updike is often referred to in America as the most talented and prolific writer of his generation. He works hard and enthusiastically in all genres: he writes novels, short stories, plays and even poetry (most often ironic). Updike is a prose writer who has received many prestigious literary awards, including the National Literary Critics Association's Highest Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Prize. He is elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts. `Centaur` - the best and most famous novel of the writer. There is a lot of autobiographical in it, although it puzzles with its unusualness, because ancient Greek myths and reality are intertwined here. The author wrote: `The idea of ​​the book was born from a few lines I met in a collection of legends and ancient myths. Now they are opening a novel. In these lines, I was shocked by the image of Chiron, who, like Christ, sacrifices himself and his immortality for the sake of humanity. I wanted to retell, re-read this legend. In my imagination, it merges with the memories of my own childhood, Pennsylvania in 1947`. By identifying his hero with a centaur, the writer seems to raise his everyday problems to the level of eternal topics ...