Richard Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was a chronicler of mid-20th century mainstream American life, often cited as artistically residing somewhere between J.D. Salinger and John Cheever. He is regarded as the foremost novelist of the post-WWII Age of Anxiety.
The famous opening line of the novel warns of the bleak narrative to follow, "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce." Emily and Sarah Grimes are sisters who share little in terms of character but much in terms of disappointment with their lives. Emily, the more intellectual and cosmopolitan of the two, seeks love in numerous disappointing affairs and short-term relationships while Sarah, the prettier and more conventional sister, marries young and bears children to an uncouth and abusive husband. Their troubled, rootless mother, Pookie, like many Yatesian matriarchs, is likely modeled on his own mother, who was nicknamed "Dookie". The novel, beginning in the 1930s when the sisters are children and ending in the 1970s with Sarah's death, primarily revolves around Emily as the book's central character, though the book employs Yates' characteristic and seamless shifts of consciousness throughout.
《复活节游行》我读了两遍。第一遍是一口气读完的,因为急于想知道爱米莉的命运。第二遍过后才发现,她并没有什么命运可言。这个词对她来说太大了,对大多数的女人也是。求学工作,结婚生子,应付小小的波折和琐事,还没来得及想明白,已经进入了五十岁。人说四十不惑,但全书...
评分《复活节游行》我读了两遍。第一遍是一口气读完的,因为急于想知道爱米莉的命运。第二遍过后才发现,她并没有什么命运可言。这个词对她来说太大了,对大多数的女人也是。求学工作,结婚生子,应付小小的波折和琐事,还没来得及想明白,已经进入了五十岁。人说四十不惑,但全书...
评分这本小说讲的是在一个单亲家庭长大的女人一生的故事,这个家庭所导致的结果是使一个弱小的灵魂变成一个勇敢、坚强、理性和独立的人。在这本书中是一个女性,她叫爱米莉。 故事从爱米莉五岁的时候讲起,这时候她的父母已经离婚,爱米莉和姐姐萨拉一起跟着有点神经质又酗酒的母...
评分读这本书在很早以前,一直想写点什么却不知如何下笔。尽管人种国籍生活的年代所受的教育如此不同,但是我一眼就认定了艾米莉是同类,我们一样是成人世界的小学生,永远也毕不了业。 1、经常被说高智商低情商。 2、和刚认识的人也能相处得很好,但是时间久了也还是那个程度。和...
评分理查德·耶茨的姓乍一听像是“Yes”,然而看了他的书,你会发现,他一直在说“No”,对现实进行戏仿、对生活进行善意的嘲讽,像《革命之路》中,明明是怀揣梦想,却一次次被扼杀于现实的冷酷,直至像被猎杀的小鹿再无动弹之力。这种对人生曾雄心勃勃、豪情万丈直至灯尽油枯、一...
在去德里的飞机上一口气读完。The best novel I've read in a long long time. 惊心。两姐妹孤独自私懦弱不知道自己要什么。像你我一样。
评分伤感
评分最怕像是中了诅咒,成为这辈子注定不会开心的人。敏感、脆弱、尖锐、自私、任性、疏离、热情、懦弱、疯狂……耶茨写尽失败者的百态,不过是在写终身未能扭转孤独命运的自己。不了解世道运转的规律吗?还是性格确实不可能改变?囿于童年的阴影,受到弗洛伊德医生精神分析的诅咒,而无法解决爱和归属感的问题,于是即使有所成就也是以极大的毅力沉湎于痛苦中完成的,其结果不是早逝就是早衰。爱与归属感,是长期以来亟待解决的核心问题。
评分掩卷长叹人生之虚无。还是丁尼生说得妙:”Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath / And after many a summer dies the swan. "
评分作者像是个温柔而冷静的旁观者,流水般的笔触写出迫人的忧伤。沉稳的笔调下是平静而又残酷的痛和孤独。当Peter说“if we have another girl we might name her after you”时,Emily哭,我也哭,因为我知道她和她姐姐一样,等于是死了。
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