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.
读耶茨的小说总是让我很难受,很难以面对,不敢承认这样的事实。 但是它确实发生了,那么真实。 我不知道可不可以用平凡来形容主角,但确实是这样的,没有什么大的戏剧性,最多也就是她在野外的第一次,她对生活的态度,对男伴的态度,也许应将这本小说放在很久之前的那个年代...
评分 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《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...
评分美国作家理查德·耶茨(Richard Yates,1926—1992)曾被英国《泰晤士报》称为“被遗忘的最优秀的美国作家”。耶茨是真优秀,也真的被遗忘过。他被认为是“焦虑时代的伟大作家”,有人把他和写“爵士时代”(美国20世纪20年代)的菲茨杰拉德相比,他的影响遍及雷蒙德·卡佛、安...
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。
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。
评分好看,讲女性的孤独,Emily自由但孤独,Sarah结婚早,恋爱结婚,老公不争气,一样孤独。
评分因为整个故事太难过,其实只是有点善良的Peter也就是天使了,正好不太久之前看过诺顿演一个小神父(keeping the faith),也就一直把Peter想象成诺顿,真 的 好 多 了。难过到看不下去的,可以试试这个办法:)
评分As touching as it is real, as beautiful as it is sad.
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