The Easter Parade

出版者:Vintage Classics

作者:Richard Yates

页数:240

出版时间:2008

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099518563

丛书系列:Vintage Yates

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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.

读后感

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...  

我承认，这本书我只看到第二章第二节——网上能找到的所有部分。赶在现在写出这篇书评，想要试着赚一册签名本。 前天晚上，一个朋友发短信来向我推荐这本耶茨的《复活节游行》，“你一定要去看，这是张爱玲后来想写而未写的小说。”阴暗、压抑，但是因明了而通透。像张爱玲说的...  

在去鼓浪屿的途中读了这本书。读后我把书留在了返程的飞机上。回到家，回到妈妈身边让她紧紧抱着我，还好这世上还有一个人真心关心我。我不要孤独。 这本小说的叙述方式是平铺直述的，象似毫无波澜，但实际上是直扣人的内心深处，毫不留情。他不给你答案，不给你希...  

“如果说我的作品有一个主题，我怀疑这个主题并不复杂，那就是绝大多数人都生活在一种无法逃避的孤独中，他们的悲剧也在此。” ————理查德·耶茨 “福楼拜以来，少有人对那些生活得苦不...  

用户评价

伤感

在不断累积的期望中一口气读完全书，却发现等待着她们的未来并不会更好，只会越来越糟。偶尔看到自己的影子。

the last chapter makes me very emotional.. is women's strength really so?

高三

最怕像是中了诅咒，成为这辈子注定不会开心的人。敏感、脆弱、尖锐、自私、任性、疏离、热情、懦弱、疯狂……耶茨写尽失败者的百态，不过是在写终身未能扭转孤独命运的自己。不了解世道运转的规律吗？还是性格确实不可能改变？囿于童年的阴影，受到弗洛伊德医生精神分析的诅咒，而无法解决爱和归属感的问题，于是即使有所成就也是以极大的毅力沉湎于痛苦中完成的，其结果不是早逝就是早衰。爱与归属感，是长期以来亟待解决的核心问题。