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Original Title:	The Coup
ISBN:	0449242595 (ISBN13: 9780449242599)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1978)

The Coup

John Updike

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.43 | 882 Users | 46 Reviews

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Title	:	The Coup
Author	:	John Updike
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	March 12th 1980 by Fawcett (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Literature. Cultural. Africa. American. Politics. Novels

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The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû. (“A leader,” writes Colonel Ellelloû, “is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.”) Colonel Ellelloû has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion—cultural, ideological, and personal—to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellelloû tells his own story—always elegantly, and often in the third person—from an undisclosed location in the South of France.


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Fun and well written, amusing and depressing in equal measures. The characters and the outlook are all so hopeless. I am not sure about the politics of this book and what they meant in 75 with the oil embargo. Mr. Updike overdoes the excessive zealousness of the leading character with his islamic marxism which is so preposterous, but that may be the whole point. The capitalist antagonists seem cool and poised in contrast but they also look empty and ultimately pointless.

Far more precious in its minutiae than any grand, sweeping political entanglements. Updike has a delicious propensity to compose thick, highly-nested and diction-elevated sentences that are like cheesecake to the reader's eyes. The book itself is an interesting portrait of two cultures run through a single man, of observation in a man separated from himself, unwillingly placed in a world of egosim. An enjoyable read.

I can see the beginnings of "Brazil' in this book, though in this case the character creates an alternative reality, not the author. Infinitely more readable than Gabriel Garcia Marquez' portrait of a dictator, yet still rings true.

I've been reading one Updike novel a year for quite awhile now. I read them in chronological order and so this year's was The Coup. It's a nearly complete break from his other novels. Most of the earlier books (including the first two Rabbits, Couples and The Centaur)are set in contemporary America and have autobiographical elements. The Coup is a faux memoir of a dicatator of an imaginary country in Africa.I found it considerably less satisfying than must of Updike's other works. His writing is

When I started to read this novel, I thought "hum... this feels like a book which has aged". Well, I was wrong. Even though it refers to Nixon's era, the comments and situation are quite contemporary, especially in this time of economic crisis, as we are facing our consumerism tendencies. The development of the story in the colonies, is also quite interesting and is written with a lot of irony. Once again, although the era of colonies is over, the results of these experiences in Africa is still

After the Rabbit Angstrom meganovel, I think this is Updike's best book. The unflagging stylistic virtuosity invites and sustains comparison to Lolita. The imaginary country in which it is largely set (there are also charming vignettes of 1950s Wisconsin) is not only plausible, but vividly and seamlessly real. So it's strange that this is Updike's only novel to languish out of print. Fawcett owns the paperback rights to his novels, but hasn't deigned to issue an edition since 1980. I think

During the passing of Updike, I took and reread my favorite parts in the hilarious novel. For someone who wrote so much about the US, he has captured so well this fictitious African country. A most read if you want to takes the political environment of Africa still.