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.
耶茨总爱写这样的女文青:受过一定的教育,想成为知识分子或艺术家却始终未能如愿,又因为不甘于普通人的生活和感情而经历诸多情感和家庭上的不幸。 例如《革命之路》中的April,这种女的总给人“做”的感觉。中产阶级的郊区生活怎么就令她窒息了?作为丈夫的杰克,就算无功,...
評分耶茨总爱写这样的女文青:受过一定的教育,想成为知识分子或艺术家却始终未能如愿,又因为不甘于普通人的生活和感情而经历诸多情感和家庭上的不幸。 例如《革命之路》中的April,这种女的总给人“做”的感觉。中产阶级的郊区生活怎么就令她窒息了?作为丈夫的杰克,就算无功,...
評分 評分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...
作者像是個溫柔而冷靜的旁觀者,流水般的筆觸寫齣迫人的憂傷。沉穩的筆調下是平靜而又殘酷的痛和孤獨。當Peter說“if we have another girl we might name her after you”時,Emily哭,我也哭,因為我知道她和她姐姐一樣,等於是死瞭。
评分Loneliness,misery,unhappiness,suffering. Life is always full of things like that. 看完喘不過氣來,這也是why Yates「難讀」,因為他寫的並不是能搞死人的絕望,而是永恒不變的失落/失望/失敗,,
评分Enjoy life now, even if you think it's shit. Because it can always go shitter.
评分高三
评分對於非常打動人的作品,有時反而不知該說些什麼,說句“我愛XXX(作者)”可能就夠瞭。耶茨寫齣瞭女性在社會中的睏境——不論她們的具體社會處境如何,所麵臨的也無非是相當有限的可能性:婚姻、生育、生存、兩性關係。這哪裏是評論者常說的“失敗者”,耶茨寫的明明是我們自己,是每天齣現在生活中的你我她。因真實而常被我們忽略,因真實而觸目驚心。
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