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.
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在去鼓浪嶼的途中讀瞭這本書。讀後我把書留在瞭返程的飛機上。迴到傢,迴到媽媽身邊讓她緊緊抱著我,還好這世上還有一個人真心關心我。我不要孤獨。 這本小說的敘述方式是平鋪直述的,象似毫無波瀾,但實際上是直扣人的內心深處,毫不留情。他不給你答案,不給你希...
評分校園是她生活的中心。她去巴納德上學之前,從未聽說過“智力的”這個詞能用作名詞(即intellectual,知識分子),她銘記於心。這是個勇敢的名詞,一個自豪的名詞,這個名詞讓人聯想到畢生奉獻於崇高的事,對凡俗之事抱以冷冷的衊視。 接著是一段久久的沉默。後來,...
評分從去年讀過耶茨之後,我就想為他寫一篇書評。如果是為雜誌稿寫耶茨,我肯定會去仔細查一下他的生平。可我現在不想這樣。一個作傢需要麵對的始終隻有他的讀者,他的小說就是他的一切。作者要退居到作品之後,盡量不被讀者發現自己的影子。若我刻意的去接近作者真實的影像,那就...
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最怕像是中瞭詛咒,成為這輩子注定不會開心的人。敏感、脆弱、尖銳、自私、任性、疏離、熱情、懦弱、瘋狂……耶茨寫盡失敗者的百態,不過是在寫終身未能扭轉孤獨命運的自己。不瞭解世道運轉的規律嗎?還是性格確實不可能改變?囿於童年的陰影,受到弗洛伊德醫生精神分析的詛咒,而無法解決愛和歸屬感的問題,於是即使有所成就也是以極大的毅力沉湎於痛苦中完成的,其結果不是早逝就是早衰。愛與歸屬感,是長期以來亟待解決的核心問題。
評分因為整個故事太難過,其實隻是有點善良的Peter也就是天使瞭,正好不太久之前看過諾頓演一個小神父(keeping the faith),也就一直把Peter想象成諾頓,真 的 好 多 瞭。難過到看不下去的,可以試試這個辦法:)
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評分As touching as it is real, as beautiful as it is sad.
評分本來以為主題是不婚不育保平安,讀完纔意識到人生好像隻是運氣的問題,不是你受到良好教育或外形美麗就一定能被愛,隻不過碰巧遇到什麼樣的人而已。當然也可以自己一個人過,但年輕時可能會有各式各樣的dates,成為中年女性後這樣的機會就越來越少瞭吧;如果事業上也差強人意,大概真的會非常孤獨吧。講到這裏心生很多切身的恐懼。(第一次讀Yates的原作,反而不如以前讀他其他作品的中文版時感受到的絕望強烈。可能因為這本比較pov?
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