First published in 1962, a year after "Revolutionary Road", this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was fi...
First published in 1962, a year after "Revolutionary Road", this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow.
Richard Yates shone bright upon the publication of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. It drew unbridled praise and branded Yates an important, new writer. Kurt Vonnegut claimed that Revolutionary Road was The Great Gatsby of his time. William Styron described it as "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a ...
Richard Yates shone bright upon the publication of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. It drew unbridled praise and branded Yates an important, new writer. Kurt Vonnegut claimed that Revolutionary Road was The Great Gatsby of his time. William Styron described it as "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." Tennessee Williams went one further and said, "Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is."
In 1962 Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was published, his first collection of short stories. It too had praise heaped upon it. Kurt Vonnegut said it was "the best short-story collection ever written by an American."
Yates' writing skills were further utilized when, upon returning from Los Angeles, he began working as a speechwriter for then-Senator Robert F. Kennedy until the assassination of JFK. From there he moved onto Iowa where, as a creative writing teacher, he would influence and inspire writers such as Andre Dubus and Dewitt Henry.
His third novel, Disturbing the Peace, was published in 1975. Perhaps his second most well-known novel, The Easter Parade, was published in 1976. The story follows the lives of the Grimes sisters and ends in typical Yatesian fashion, replicating the disappointed lives of Revolutionary Road.
However, Yates began to find himself as a writer cut adrift in a sea fast turning towards postmodernism; yet, he would stay true to realism. His heroes and influences remained the classics of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flaubert and short-story master, Chekov.
It was to his school and army days that Richard turned to for his next novel, A Good School, which was quickly followed by his second collection of short stories, Liars in Love. Young Hearts Crying emerged in 1984 followed two years later with Cold Spring Harbour, which would prove to be his final completed novel.
Like the fate of his hero, Flaubert, whose novel Madame Bovary influenced Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade, Richard Yates' works are enjoying a posthumous renaissance, attracting newly devoted fans across the Atlantic and beyond.
"Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship." Yates笔下的纽约有世俗的苍凉感。十一种孤独感，其实是那种不被理解，不被认可，不被看到..."Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship." Yates笔下的纽约有世俗的苍凉感。十一种孤独感，其实是那种不被理解，不被认可，不被看到的落寞，无助，和绝望，我们可能都不会是永远孤独的人，但有那么一刻你一定会觉得你在Yates的故事中读到了自己。(展开)
“I am not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder...“I am not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder’s faulty craftsmanship, and if that’s the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do”(展开)
雙生
上海译文出版社2012版
天空之城的支撑
上海译文出版社2010版
0 有用 西西弗之梦 2019-02-15 09:53:12
纽约版的《Dubliners》? 可能过誉了…
0 有用 Faithful 2019-11-22 10:06:14
"Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship." Yates笔下的纽约有世俗的苍凉感。十一种孤独感，其实是那种不被理解，不被认可，不被看到... "Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder's faulty craftsmanship." Yates笔下的纽约有世俗的苍凉感。十一种孤独感，其实是那种不被理解，不被认可，不被看到的落寞，无助，和绝望，我们可能都不会是永远孤独的人，但有那么一刻你一定会觉得你在Yates的故事中读到了自己。 (展开)
1 有用 叶藏.!!张寄奴 2011-01-15 23:47:18
纽约的《都柏林人》啊
1 有用 鱼更 2015-06-05 14:08:00
Observing the world through Yates's eyes is quite a sensational experience.
0 有用 Murr 2018-04-05 20:30:41
我要报名当第十二种
0 有用 Katie 2024-02-27 23:07:44 新加坡
Eleven kinds of loneliness, eleven kinds of boredom. Perhaps better adapted to TV series.
0 有用 不温 2023-10-07 19:05:54 北京
有点平
0 有用 豆友163515610 2023-08-31 18:57:11 江苏
十一种孤独，找不到社会定位和低自尊感的个体。写得太工整了没什么意思（笑）
0 有用 Raisman 2022-06-07 19:58:38
“I am not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder... “I am not even sure if there are any windows in this particular house. Maybe the light is just going to have to come in as best it can, through whatever chinks and cracks have been left in the builder’s faulty craftsmanship, and if that’s the case you can be sure that nobody feels worse about it than I do” (展开)
0 有用 Madam Veronica 2021-09-11 21:42:55
最初是被它的名字和好看的蓝色书脊吸引住，拿下来之后又爱上了封面，买回家之后每个睡不着的晚上读一篇，竟然有一种看波杰克的熟悉感。穿透纸张的波澜不惊的丧，应该是现代都市人人都会理解都会共鸣的情感。到最后，日子总是要过下去的。