Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love.
Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth:
Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in 'Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired'. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to “pool their resources” and live together, with their children in 'Trying Out for the Race'. A young American soldier’s too-abrupt postwar reunion, on foreign soil, with the lovely, dismayingly grown-up sister he hasn’t seen since he was eleven and she was ten, in 'A Compassionate Leave'.
The seven stories in this collection showcase Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and description. The last and longest of them, a rich, lucid, and compelling piece called 'Saying Goodbye to Sally', achieves a fitting conclusion for the book – and a resonant final statement of its theme.
刊于2011年8月28日《南方都市报·阅读周刊·文学·虚构》 http://nf.nfdaily.cn/nfdsb/content/2011-08/28/content_29056578.htm 发表时略有删节 哈罗德•布鲁姆把现代短篇小说分为两大敌对传统---契诃夫-海明威模式与卡夫卡-博尔赫斯模式。它强调了现实与幻想之间本质...
评分翻譯真糟糕,讀起來特別痛苦,速度很慢。我用看完一本《動物農場》的時間,才勉強爬完《戀愛中的騙子》第一篇小說《哦,約瑟夫,我很累》。幸好不是買的~~~ 下面說說閱讀中發現的問題。 一、 人稱代詞使用頻繁。尤其在一句話中不停重複。隨便找一段: 在【她】父親來看望【她...
评分 评分作为继《十一种孤独》后的第二部短篇小说集,《恋爱中的骗子》也还是同样描写“失败人生”以及失败人生的孤独感(“loser”和“孤独”可以说是理查德耶茨小说的一贯的主题),但两者给人的阅读感觉却是很不相同的。如果说《十一种孤独》描写的是“失败”和“孤独”这种“状态”...
评分#耶茨的短篇小说中充满了失意者——但是就是这样丧丧的文风,却给我带来了莫大的安慰。非常喜欢他对小说节奏的把握,可以说是驾轻就熟。
评分人与人永远无法彼此真正理解,无论看似多么亲密。
评分写电影
评分complete honesty is merely a rosy imagination
评分一个个挣扎着的文艺青年。
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