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Richard Yates

    3 febbraio 1926 – 7 novembre 1992

    Richard Yates è stato un romanziere americano celebrato per il suo acuto realismo e il suo magistrale ritratto delle disillusione del sogno americano. La sua opera iniziale, in particolare il suo romanzo d'esordio, fu accolta con plauso, segnalandolo come una nuova importante voce. Yates esplorò con profonda intuizione temi di disgregazione familiare, declino sociale e vuoto interiore. Nonostante i mutamenti delle correnti letterarie, rimase fedele alle sue radici realista, traendo ispirazione da maestri come Flaubert e Čechov. I suoi romanzi continuano a risuonare, godendo di una rinascita postuma per il loro esame inflessibile e senza tempo della condizione umana.

    Richard Yates
    The Easter Parade
    The Easter Parade, English edition
    The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
    Disturbo della quite pubblica
    Revolutionary Road
    Classics: Revolutionary Road
    • Classics: Revolutionary Road

      • 439pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      È il 1955; i Wheeler sono una coppia middle class dei sobborghi benestanti di New York, che coltiva il proprio anticonformismo con velleità ingenua, quasi ignara della sua stessa ipocrisia: la loro esistenza scorre fra il treno dei pendolari, le cenette alcoliche con i vicini, le recite della filodrammatica locale, ma Frank e April si sentono destinati a una vita creativa e di successo, possibilmente in Europa. Nella storia della giovane famiglia in apparenza felice la tensione è nascosta ma crescente, il lieto fine impossibile, e l'inevitabile esplosione arriva con una potenza da dramma shakespeariano.

      Classics: Revolutionary Road2017
      4,2
    • Eine letzte Liebschaft

      Short Storys

      • 208pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Ganz gleich, ob er das unterdrückte Begehren einer Hausfrau in der Vorstadt thematisiert, die Verzweiflung eines Büroangestellten in Manhattan oder das gebrochene Herz einer alleinerziehenden Mutter – niemand porträtiert die Alltagshoffnungen und -enttäuschungen seiner Figuren so schonungslos und doch mitfühlend wie Richard Yates. »Eine letzte Liebschaft« versammelt neun Erzählungen aus dem Nachlass des Autors, der als einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller der US-amerikanischen Nachkriegsgeneration gilt.

      Eine letzte Liebschaft2016
      3,9
    • Fremdsprachentexte: A Good School

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Richard Yates, 1926 in Yonkers, New York, geboren, erregte schon mit seinem Debütroman »Revolutionary Road« (1961; 2008 verfilmt mit Kate Winslet und Leonardo Di Caprio) Aufsehen: Viel Beifall kam vonseiten literarischer Kollegen wie Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams und John Cheever. »A Good School« (1978) spielt an einer fiktiven Privatschule, der Dorset Academy im Norden von Connecticut. Den zeitlichen Rahmen bilden die frühen vierziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, vor allem der Eintritt der USA in den Zweiten Weltkrieg nach dem Beschuss von Pearl Harbour durch die Japaner. Auf bewegende Weise geschildert wird das Internatsleben an der Academy, wo sich unspektakuläre Ereignisse mit dramatischen Entwicklungen ablösen. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

      Fremdsprachentexte: A Good School2014
      4,5
    • Leto v Cold Spring Harbor

      • 176pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Evan Shepard je mladík s pestrou minulosťou. Má za sebou búrlivú pubertu, stroskotané manželstvo a malú dcérku, no jeho stretnutie s pokojnou a krásnou Rachel znamená nový začiatok. Rýchlo sa vezmú, no veci nevychádzajú celkom tak, ako si naplánovali. Stres zo spoločného života s Rachelinou rodinou v dome v Cold Spring Harbor, kde spoločne bývajú, si začína vyberať na mladom páriku daň.

      Leto v Cold Spring Harbor2012
      3,0
    • John Wilder führt das perfekte Leben: Im trauten Eigenheim wartet eine ihn liebende Frau täglich auf seine Rückkehr aus dem Büro, wo er sich eine vielversprechende Karriere als Anzeigenvertreter aufgebaut hat. Seine Abende verbringt er auf Cocktailpartys und die Wochenenden mit der Familie auf dem Lande. Alles scheint gut. Doch wenn John ehrlich zu sich ist, dann weiß er, dass tief in ihm schon seit Langem etwas aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten ist – etwas droht, die Ruhe zu stören …

      Ruhestörung2010
      3,9
    • Núdzový východ

      • 328pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Núdzový východ je príbeh o odvrátenej strane amerického sna, ktorý bol v 50. rokoch minulého storočia v USA ideálom strednej vrstvy – dom na predmestí, manželka starajúca sa o deti v domácnosti, dobrá práca pre manžela a zaistené živobytie. V súlade s týmto ideálom žijú aj manželia April a Frank, ale postupne prichádzajú na plytkosť a prázdnotu takéhoto života. Museli mu obetovať vyššie ambície, ktoré kedysi mali. Z tohto života sa chcú vytrhnúť netradičným riešením, ale stroskotajú tak, ako si to ani jeden z nich nepredstavoval. Núdzový východ je majstrovský román spisovateľa, ktorého tvorbu prirovnáva kritika ku Scottovi Fitzgeraldovi, a cenili si ho takí autori ako Tennessee Williams či Kurt Vonnegut. Román sa stal predlohou na napísanie scenára k úspešnému filmu režiséra Sama Mendesa s Kate Winslet a Leonardom DiCaprio v hlavných úlohách.

      Núdzový východ2009
      4,0
    • Young Hearts Crying

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      The acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road—one of the most important writers of the twentieth century—movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation. With empathy and grace, Yates creates a poignant novel of the desires and disasters of a tragic, hopeful couple.

      Young Hearts Crying2009
      3,9
    • 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.

      Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. Elf Arten der Einsamkeit, englische Ausgabe2008
      4,0
    • A Special Providence

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. Back home, his mother Alice puts all her hopes in her son, and dreams of his return and starting a new life for them both.

      A Special Providence2008
      3,9
    • „Kein Wort ist zuviel und trotzdem ist alles gesagt.“ BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK Eine vollkommen untalentierte Bildhauerin darf für das weiße Haus Präsident Roosevelt in Stein meißeln und kann die Chance ihres Lebens nicht nutzen. Ein unerfahrener GI versucht vergeblich, im Paris der Nachkriegszeit seine Jungfräulichkeit zu verlieren. Und eine junge Prostituierte vergrault durch ihr zwanghaftes Lügen den Mann, den sie liebt.

      Verliebte Lügner2007
      4,1
    • The Easter Parade

      • 225pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship into focus one last time.

      The Easter Parade2007
      4,1
    • Ascent

      The Mountains of the Tour de France

      • 160pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      The mountain stages is where the real battles of the Tour de France are won and lost. Besides, the mountains make the most dramatic backdrops for those battles.This book takes a look at the long history of mountain stages in the Tour and the important role they've played in the careers of the eventual Tour winners.The book is illustrated with 130 historic photographs printed in duotone.

      Ascent2006
      2,7
    • Elf Arten der Einsamkeit

      • 284pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Wiederentdeckt Sie leben in der Kleinstadthölle, fühlen sich zu Höherem berufen oder wenigstens zu Anderem und entkommen der Realität doch nicht. Die Figuren, die der große amerikanische Autor Richard Yates in seinen Erzählungen klar und präzise zeichnet, sind sämtlich gezwungen, sich mit einem Schicksal zu bescheiden, das sie nicht mögen. Daraus entsteht Konfliktstoff. Daraus entsteht eine tiefe Trauer.

      Elf Arten der Einsamkeit2006
      3,7
    • The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

      • 496pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the rediscovery of one of our greatest American writers.

      The Collected Stories of Richard Yates2002
      4,4
    • Follows forty years in the lives of two sisters, victims of divorced, neglectful parents, as they develop into different kinds of women.

      The Easter Parade, English edition2001
      4,1
    • Revolutionary Road

      • 457pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      È il 1955; i Wheeler sono una coppia middle class dei sobborghi benestanti di New York, che coltiva il proprio anticonformismo con velleità ingenua, quasi ignara della sua stessa ipocrisia: la loro esistenza scorre fra il treno dei pendolari, le cenette alcoliche con i vicini, le recite della filodrammatica locale, ma Frank e April si sentono destinati a una vita creativa e di successo, possibilmente in Europa. Nella storia della giovane famiglia in apparenza felice la tensione è nascosta ma crescente, il lieto fine impossibile, e l'inevitabile esplosione arriva con una potenza da dramma shakespeariano.

      Revolutionary Road2000
      4,2
    • Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the stories of William Grove, the quiet boy who becomes an editor of the school newspaper; Jack Draper, a crippled chemistry teacher; and Edith Stone, the schoolmaster's young daughter, who falls in love with most celebrated boy in the class of 1943.

      A Good School2000
      3,7
    • Cold Spring Harbor

      • 182pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire. Evan Shepard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the open ro But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural Long Island into lower Manhattan, that Evan’s life would be changed forever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street, Evan’s father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone. Within hours, two families—sharing equally complex and addled histories—will come together. There will be flirtation. There will be a marriage. There will be a child, a new home… But as Evan moves further into the uncharted land of manhood, as the women and men around him come into focus, he faces roads not taken and a journey not made—in Richard Yates’ haunting exploration of human restlessness, family secrets, and a future shaped by them both.

      Cold Spring Harbor1987
      3,8
    • Pět povídek (Doktor Jack Kilo, Všechno nejlepší, Fackovací panák, Moc dobrý jazzový pianista, Stavitelé) amerického spisovatele, vybraných z rozsáhlého celku jeho povídkové tvorby. Jsou vesměs psány na téma lidského osamění, jež člověka staví do těžkých situací, především duševních, ať už jeho příčina je jakákoli.

      Pět druhů osamění1966