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 评分 评分校园是她生活的中心。她去巴纳德上学之前,从未听说过“智力的”这个词能用作名词(即intellectual,知识分子),她铭记于心。这是个勇敢的名词,一个自豪的名词,这个名词让人联想到毕生奉献于崇高的事,对凡俗之事抱以冷冷的蔑视。 接着是一段久久的沉默。后来,...
评分从去年读过耶茨之后,我就想为他写一篇书评。如果是为杂志稿写耶茨,我肯定会去仔细查一下他的生平。可我现在不想这样。一个作家需要面对的始终只有他的读者,他的小说就是他的一切。作者要退居到作品之后,尽量不被读者发现自己的影子。若我刻意的去接近作者真实的影像,那就...
就算认定了孤独和徒劳 还是会惶恐而感伤 | 太用力和不够用力之间的关系还真是微妙
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。
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Enjoy life now, even if you think it's shit. Because it can always go shitter.
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