Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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Ottavo racconto: Un’altra coppia sull’orlo di una crisi di nervi. Sposati, senza figli, ormai trentenni. Lei petulante, lui frustrato. Due solitudini che non si fanno nessuna compagnia. My favourite of the eleven, "The Best of Everything", tells the story of two ill-matched young adults on the eve of their wedding, and if it doesn't stab you in the heart, I don't know what will. The amazing thing about it for me is that it isn't in the least bit sentimental, and all the language in the story is neutral, save for one word close to the end - "tragic" - the one word the author allowed himself with which to weigh in, or point a finger. What a powerful and poignant moment he creates there. What an everyman's story too. I wonder how many marriages have followed such a courtship. I shudder to think. Yates è un maestro nel fotografarli con racconti brevi ed efficaci, nel mettere a nudo con pochi tratti il nodo irrisolto della loro esistenza.

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Stewart O’Nan wrote in the Boston Review that Richard Yates “wrote about the mundane sadness of domestic life in language that rarely ever draws attention to itself. There’s nothing fussy or pretentious about his style.” Mi perdoni Mister Yates se a lei e al suo più che comprensibile pessimismo io mi ostino a preferire uomini così: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. Nell’ultimo racconto ( ”I costruttori”) si parla proprio dello scrivere e l’immagine di una casa in costruzione rende bene l’idea di come si debba realizzare un racconto fortificando le sue fondamenta ma occupandosi anche dei punti luce…

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Yates lived the kind of life he might have written about - indeed, he wrote about little else. By the time he died, of emphysema, in 1982, all his work was out of print. It is even possible that a part of him would have relished history's treatment of him. In "A Glutton for Punishment" he describes, with startling acuity, the inner processes of a man with a flair for, and warped appreciation of, his own failure. But this was his genius: the precise dissection of people's unhappiness. "I'm grateful that I know a little more now about honesty in the use of words," says the narrator of "Builders". For all that the narrator may be at that point not quite as honest as he avers, this honest use of language is Yates's central concern, and the reason his stories are so fulfilling, so rich, even as they delineate their characters' internal poverty. I have perhaps not made these stories seem enticing, but I assure you they are: you may groan with second-hand despair as you read, but they are still the kind of stories you sneak off to read when you should be doing something else. That's how good they are. Published in 1962, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was published a year after his debut novel, Revolutionary Road, which is his best-known work. Since many of the issues listed above are also themes that Yates wrote about in his novel, readers who liked the novel would probably like the short stories in this collection. 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 (*) Home – Part 1: The Cover-Up – Walter’s wife tells him that he looks tired and worn out. Walter, of course, assures her he is just fine. Over the next hour, the kids whining, the sound of his wife’s concerned voice, the cigarettes, even the liquor, every moment strikes Walter as a kind of torture. But if excellence is easy to admire it is hard to like, and Reece refused to make himself likable. It was his only failing, but it was a big one, for respect without affection can’t last long—not, at least, where the sentimentality of adolescent minds is involved.”It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer.”—Richard Russo,Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

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A Wrestler With Sharks has probably some autobiographical notes in the portrayal of a small publishing house putting out a biweekly tabloid. The type of loneliness chosen as a subject now is the delusional kind, as Walter Sobel, a self-made man with dreams of becoming a writer, refuses to look reality in the eye, preferring to live in an imaginary world where he is not struggling with English grammar and all his colleagues are not making fun of his affectations. 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. Bennett, Dan (22 March 1992). "Music: Ramones show there's nothing like the real thing with 'Loco Live' ". North County Times.

Le sue parole non avevano nessuna importanza (per un attimo sembrò che non avessero mai avuto importanza), ma sulla faccia di Carson Ken vide dipinta l’espressione, stranamente familiare, del suo stesso animo, la medesima espressione che lui, Platt Culo di Lardo, aveva mostrato tutta la vita agli altri: lo sguardo di un essere tormentato, vulnerabile, incapace d’indipendenza, desideroso di sorridere, uno sguardo che diceva: «Non lasciatemi solo, per favore». Doutor Chacal” – um conto que nos dá a conhecer Vincent Sabella, um jovem rapaz, no seu primeiro dia numa nova escola; ele que sempre viveu num orfanato, com pais adoptivos, um “tio” e uma “tia” que eram a sua família de acolhimento.

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Stylistically, the last story is different, leading with a paragraph about the writer writing of a writer. I thought I’d like it more than I did, but the overlapping stories of two types of characters I find annoying became tedious. But even if a few stories are slighter than others, that’s not a deal breaker in a collection. Yates’s prose is a pleasure to read, coming across as effortless, and his insights into American culture are timeless. Builders A financially troubled aspiring young writer gets hired as a ghostwriter by a New York taxi driver. Interesting. A solid story and comment on life but not the best story to end on. There may not be anything “fussy or pretentious” about his writing, but it flows smoothly and its flawed characters, both the appealing and unappealing, seem authentic.Fun With a Stranger is a return to the classroom, but this time for a look at Miss Snell, a teacher who seems unable to relate to children and to relax in their company, preferring instead to rely on the rigid authority of her position. For me she is another delusional person who has either forgotten what she was like as a child or who was rejected early in life by everybody, like the boy from the opening story. It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer.”—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls