Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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içerikleri gerçekten etkileyici. Hepsi çok güzel ama iki tanesi uzun süre aklımdan çıkmayacak. Askerlikle ilgili olan “Jody Attı Zarları” ve kitabın son ve en uzun öyküsü “Yapı Ustaları”. Kitabı tanımlamak için kitaptan bir cümle seçtim ; “Bugün sana kısa bir mektup yazmak için hiç vaktim olmadı, o yüzden bu uzun mektubu yazıyorum”. I'm not sure why it took all the years of my life up until this point to discover the brilliance of Richard Yates, but it did. There was pain in that assumption–for both of us, I would guess, though I can’t speak for him–yet there was an uneasy justice in it too. Much as I might wish it otherwise, I did prefer my mother. I knew she was foolish and irresponsible, that she talked too much, that she made crazy emotional scenes over nothing and could be counted on to collapse in a crisis, but I had come to suspect, dismally, that my own personality might be built along much the same lines. In ways that were neither profitable nor especially pleasant, she and I were a comfort to one another.

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Palpable throughout the collection, here Yates’s pity for his characters, like Bob Prentice’s, is explicit. While the stories are tough, they’re not absolutely merciless, and the relationships between the author and his characters, the characters and the reader, and the reader and the author are agreeable, not at all strained. Eleven Kinds of Lonelinesscould even be called a gentle book, for all its disappointments. The Inevitable Showdown - Sure enough, Walter’s manager, George Crowell, asks him to step into his office for a minute. George delivers the bad news ending with, “We do a highly specialized kind of work here and we can’t expect everybody to stay on top of the job. In your case particularly, we really feel you’d be happier in some organization better suited to your – abilities.” It’s that pause before the last word that says it all. Manager George thinks Walt is completely devoid of abilities.In The Best of Everything on the eve of the wedding day a groom is interested more in his new suitcase than in his bride…

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racconti bellissimi, li hanno commentati egregiamente in tanti, non ho parole nuove per lodarli come meritano. So che probabilmente sto commettendo un’ingiustizia: ci ho provato, giuro che ci ho provato a dare le cinque stelle a questo libro, ma non ci riesco, è più forte di me. Yates gives such savage portraits of his characters’ inadequacies that one no longer cares about them; having nervous breakdowns, sopping up gin, they seem beyond salvaging. The novelist, like the tyrant, has complete authority over his subjects, and must rule with at least occasional benevolence or risk revolt. It isn’t enough to claim accuracy, to reproduce an alcoholic’s haggard speech or a failed artist’s delusions of fame; there must be some tempering sense of grace or pity. 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. Qui abbiamo un campionario di undici esistenze paradigmatiche nella loro solitudine. Un campionario di disadattati, delle loro nevrosi, manie, fallimenti. Prendete R. Ford e toglietegli quello che ha di eccessivo, poi prendete R. Carver e aggiungetegli ciò che gli manca. Uniteli, mescolateli e serviteli in undici calici a tulipano (*)Terzo racconto: La vita militare e il diverso approccio di due sergenti istruttori con il loro plotone e con gli ufficiali in comando. Ma se la perfezione è facile da ammirare è difficile da amare The Prentices are a blueprint for the families in Yates’s later work, and one which could be construed as autobiographical: a flighty, divorced mother with artistic leanings, no common sense, and a drinking problem, and an insecure boy who can see through her pretensions but is powerless to change the situation. Here Robert Prentice has escaped to the Army and to Europe where he can make a fresh start and put his inept stabs at normality behind him. In short, he hopes to become a man, if not a hero. Out With The Old is a slighly grotesque New Year Celebration in the TB ward of a hospital ( I’m not sure if it is the same as in story no. 4) with some poignant and better handled scenes of family troubles for the long absent patients. Kind of like the sort of feel that will gain traction with the angry young writers in England in the 60’s. Le introduzioni sono un punto di forza delle edizioni Minimun Classics (questa inclusa), ma dovete leggerle solo dopo aver letto l’opera. In October 1981, twenty years after Revolutionary Road, Delacorte brought out Yates’s second collection of stories, Liars in Love. While the work was recent–some appearing in The Atlanticand Ploughshares–all but one story is set in the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s, and all of it can be read through the author’s life.

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Sam V. H. Reese; Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates. American Literature 1 June 2022; 94 (2): 357–380. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9779078 The reader recoils even before these scenes begin, like horror movie viewers realizing the victim is going to open the wrong door. In fact, part of the drama–as in Dostoevsky–is anticipating just how terrible the humiliation will be, and how (or if) the characters will survive it. 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. Near the end of the book, dressing for Sarah’s funeral, Emily remembers her sister playing with dolls and singing “Welcome, Sweet Springtime” and “Look for the Silver Lining.” In Yates’s hands, the distance between these sentimental songs and the reality of Sarah’s life becomes more than just easy or laughable irony but unutterably sad–as is much of the book. His flat, understated style gives the passage of the Grimes sisters’ lives a poignance even as, scene by scene, it strips the bewildered Emily of her dreams. The effect is at once cruel and sweet, heartbreaking and brutal. This short story collection is astonishingly good. It's up there with J.D. Salinger's short fiction, with Raymond Carver's, John Updike's too. Strangely, Mr. Yates didn't see great appreciation for his work during his own lifetime. He only ever had one story published in The New Yorker (for shame!), and even that was a posthumous honour.

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Richard Yates's unflinchingly realistic stories explore loneliness, but they don't neglect failure, cruelty, and heartbreak. Most of the stories feature men who have been disappointed, somehow, by their inability to go on and fulfill the promise of their youth. Primo racconto: la storia di un ragazzino e della sua integrazione nella nuova scuola. L’insegnante cerca di favorirlo e lui anziché riconoscenza matura odio nei suoi confronti Home – Part 2: The Telling Question – His wife senses something is terribly wrong. Finally, looking him in the eyes, she says: “Tell me the truth. Is it the job? Is it about – what you were afraid of last week? The faint lines in her face seemed to have deepen. She suddenly looked severe and much older.