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.
去年年底课上的一个小发言,终于发出来了,也借此回应老师关于作者男性中心的论断。 美国当代小说家理查德·耶茨(Richard Yates,1926-1992)被誉为“被遗忘的最优秀的美国作家”、“作家中的作家”,是一位比较典型的生前寂寞身后名的作者。据说战后一代最重要的美国小说家...
评分去年年底课上的一个小发言,终于发出来了,也借此回应老师关于作者男性中心的论断。 美国当代小说家理查德·耶茨(Richard Yates,1926-1992)被誉为“被遗忘的最优秀的美国作家”、“作家中的作家”,是一位比较典型的生前寂寞身后名的作者。据说战后一代最重要的美国小说家...
评分 评分刊于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...
Yates 的短篇一如既往地好看 展现在我们面前的是一个个普通人的人生侧面:从给罗斯福做头像的女雕塑家的儿子,到为爱嫁给离婚导师的Nice girl;从寄居英国留学却妻离子散偶遇流莺的留学生,到战后滞留法国梦想艳遇的士兵.....不过一个个短篇中的人物,都带着灰色的背影,不是这样的不如意,例如离婚而索居;就是那样的不如意,职场失意,情场也失意。想着Yates本身也是酗酒如命而在美国文坛不如意,他笔下人物的不幸也就好理解了。不过世人不都是这样,意淫别人的痛苦,自己也许就可以从人生的痛苦解脱。
评分一个个挣扎着的文艺青年。
评分人与人永远无法彼此真正理解,无论看似多么亲密。
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评分读耶茨=给自己添堵#So True
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