Годы выпуска: 1970-2026 г. Автор: Oates, Joyce Carol / Оутс, Джойс Кэрол Язык: Английский Формат: epub Качество: OCR/eBook
Описание: Джойс Кэрол Оутс (Joyce Carol Oates, р. 16 июня 1938 г.) - американская писательница, прозаик, поэтесса, драматург, критик. Свою первую книгу выпустила в 1963 году и с тех пор опубликовала более пятидесяти романов, большое количество рассказов, стихов и документальной прозы. За роман «Их жизни» (Them, 1969) получила Национальную книжную премию, а романы «Чёрная вода» (Black Water, 1992), What I Lived For (1994) и «Блондинка» (Blonde, 2000) были номинированы на Пулитцеровскую. Заслужив репутацию плодовитого автора, она была одним из ведущих американских романистов с 1960-х годов. Также писала под псевдонимами Розамунд Смит и Лорен Келли. Оутс пишет от руки, работая с «8 утра до часу каждый день, потом снова два или три часа вечером». Творческая плодовитость стала одним из её самых известных характерных черт. Газета The New York Times в 1989 году назвала имя Оутс «синонимом продуктивности», а в 2004 году The Guardian отметила, что «почти каждая рецензия на книгу Оутс начинается со списка [её опубликованных произведений]». В журнальной статье, написанной в 1970-е годы, Оутс пишет, саркастически обращаясь к своим критикам: «Так много книг! Так много! Очевидно, карьера Джойс Кэрол Оутс достигла высшей точки, если судить по количеству публикаций; столько названий, и ей бы лучше… что?.. оставить все надежды на „репутацию“?[…] Но я работаю упорно и долго, и, пока бегут часы, я, кажется, делаю больше, чем ожидала; больше, несомненно, чем позволено „серьёзному“ автору. У меня в запасе ещё много историй[…]». В журнале The New York Review of Books в 2007 году Майкл Дирда намекает, что пренебрежительная критика в адрес писательницы «проистекает из страха рецензента: как кто-то может судить о новой книге Оутс, если не знаком с большинством предыдущих произведений? С чего он должен начинать?». Несколько изданий напечатали списки наилучших, по их мнению, книг Оутс с целью помочь читателям разобраться в пугающем списке её произведений. В 2003 году в статье «Джойс Кэрол Оутс для чайников» газета The Rocky Mountain News советует начинать с её ранних рассказов и таких романов, как A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), them (1969), Wonderland (1971), Black Water (1992), and Blonde (2000). В список рекомендаций The Times 2006 года вошли them, On Boxing (1987), Black Water, and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories — произведения, написанные в 1966—2006 годы, — как «Избранное Джойс Кэрол Оутс». Entertainment Weekly в 2007 году выделяет таких «фаворитов», как Wonderland, Black Water, Blonde, I’ll Take You There (2002), and The Falls (2004). В 2003 Оутс сама говорила, что думает, что запомнится, и ей бы очень хотелось, чтобы впервые взявшие её книгу читатели прочитали them and Blonde, однако добавляет, что «могла бы запросто изменить количество названий».
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Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-HouseEDickinsonRepliLuxeGrandpa Clemens & Angelfish, 1906The Master at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1914–1916Papa at Ketchum, 1961
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ICHILDREN OF SILENCE
1 One warm evening in August 1937 a girl in love stood before a mirror. Her name was Loretta. It was her reflection in the mirror she loved, and out of this dreamy, pleasing love there arose a sense of excitement that was restless and blind—which way would it move, what would happen? Her name was Loretta; she was pleased with that name too, though Loretta Botsford pleased her less. Her last name dragged down on her, it had no melody. She stood squinting into the plastic-rimmed mirror on her bureau, trying to get the best of the light, seeing inside her high-colored, healthy, ordinary prettiness a hint of something daring and dangerous. Looking into the mirror was like looking into the future; everything was there, waiting. It was not just that face she loved. She loved other things. During the week she worked at Ajax Laundry and Dry Cleaners, and she was very lucky to have that job, and during the week the steamy, rushed languor of her work built up in her a sense of excitement. What was going to happen? Today was Saturday. . . .
PARTONE
1 The rented toyota, driven with such impatient exuberance by The Senator, was speeding along the unpaved unnamed road, taking the turns in giddy skidding slides, and then, with no warning, somehow the car had gone off the road and had overturned in black rushing water, listing to its passenger’s side, rapidly sinking. Am I going to die?—like this? . . .
