书名：Eleven Kinds of Loneliness十一种孤独

作者：Richard Yates理查德·耶茨

出版社名称：Vintage Classics

出版时间：2008

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780099518570

商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：240 （以实物为准）

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness《十一种孤独》是美国作家理查德·耶茨创作的第1部短篇小说集，出版于1962年，收集了作者在1951至1961年创作的11篇短篇小说。

《十一种孤独》以冷峻的笔触描写了美国二战后五六十年代普通纽约人的生活：十一种人的十一种孤独的人生。 《十一种孤独》用简约的语言塑造了社会典型环境中的典型人物，并且通过对他们的刻画描写，来剖析当时美国普通人的生存现状和心理状况。该书充满活力、引人入胜。 Review: "The most perceptive author of the twentieth century" (The Times) "Yates is a realist par excellence, the natural heir to Hemingway's pared-to-the-bones style and the antecedent of Carver's flat minimalism. There is something else though: a kind of transparency, almost a translucency, that owes more to Fitzgerald, his great literary hero... Read and weep"(Kate Atkinson Guardian) "Yates created what is almost the New York equivalent of Dubliners" (New York Times) "Eloquent and powerful... Wryly funny even when he's quietly tearing your heart out"(Harper's) "Extravagantly gifted... Yates' eye and ear are unsurpassed; I know of no writer whose senses are in more admirable condition. It is they that make his characters live, make these stories move and beat - they, and the sure perfection of his writing"(Esquire)

理查德·耶茨著的这本《十一种孤独》以冷峻的笔触描写了美国二战后五六十年代普通纽约人的生活，写了十一种孤独的人生，主人公都是缺乏安全感、生活不太如意的人：曼哈顿办公楼里被炒的白领、有着杰出想象力的出租车司机、屡屡遭挫却一心想成为作家的年轻人、即将结婚十分迷茫的男女、古怪的老教师、新转学的小学生、肺结核病人、老病号的妻子、爵士钢琴手、郁郁不得志的军官、退役军人等。耶茨笔下都是普通人的普通生活，描写的是普通人的孤独、失落与绝望，他自己曾说：“如果我的作品有什么主题的话，我想只有简单一个：人都是孤独的，没有人逃脱得了，这就是他们的悲剧所在。”

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.

理查德·耶茨，（1926-1992）“焦虑时代的伟大作家”。作品有《革命之路》、《十一种孤独》、《复活节游行》、《恋爱中的骗子》、《好学校》、《年轻的心在哭泣》、《冷泉港》等。耶茨作为二十世纪中叶美国主流生活的忠实记录者，批评家们将他与契诃夫、菲茨杰拉德、约翰·契弗相提并论。他的处女作长篇小说《革命之路》甫一推出即获成功，获得美国国家图书奖提名。1962年他的第1部短篇小说集《十一种孤独》出版，更被誉为“纽约的《都柏林人》”。

Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.