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The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics) ペーパーバック – 2005/3/16
One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948.
"Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane.
The Lottery and Other Stories, the only collection of stories to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range—from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous—and her power as a storyteller.
- ISBN-100374529531
- ISBN-13978-0374529536
- 版2nd
- 発売日2005/3/16
- 言語英語
- 寸法13.97 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm
- 本の長さ320ページ
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"The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood." --James Hilton, Herald Tribune
"In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique." --Newsweek
"Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders."
--Dorothy Parker, Esquire
"I implore you not to read this story unless you can take a day or a week afterward to think about it. A great story, like a great vintage, throws a crust of sediment which may destroy- the bouquet and cause ulcers later. If you don't feel the tweak of the ulcers, you haven't really read this story.
--Christopher Morley, author of The Haunted Bookshop
"Perhaps more than anything else, the horror story or horror movie says it's okay to join the mob, to become the total tribal being, to destroy the outsider. It has never been done better or more literally than in Shirley Jackson's short story 'The Lottery.' "
--Stephen King, Danse Macabre
"One of [the twentieth] century's most luminous and strange American writers . . . Shirley Jackson wrote about the mundane evils hidden in everyday life and about the warring and subsuming of selves in a family, a community, and sometimes even in a single mind."
--Jonathan Lethem, Salon
"Everything this author wrote . . . had in it the dignity and plausibility of myth . . . Shirley Jackson knew better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things."
--Guy Davenport, The New York Times Book Review
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- 出版社 : Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2nd版 (2005/3/16)
- 発売日 : 2005/3/16
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 320ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0374529531
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374529536
- 寸法 : 13.97 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 193,078位洋書 (洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る)
- - 25位American Horror
- - 927位Classic American Literature
- - 1,477位Horror Literature & Fiction
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
短編小説だがどれも2度読み返したくなる程内容が深いし登場人物の内面が面白く描かれている
思わず笑ってしまう場面もいくつかある
特にthe dummyがお勧めするめイカ!
長編作品も多く全て読み終えている 中でも(Hangsman)は心理学を専攻している学生や人の内面に興味を抱いている方にはお勧めするめイカ!
スティーブンキングが師と仰ぐシャーリーの文才力には甚だ惚れ惚れする
Do not forget her novels, too; like WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE and the well-known THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE.
You know, man is an imperfect creature. The mainspring of his being is self-interest, it is folly to deny it, but it is also folly to deny that he is capable of a disinterestedness which is sublime. We all know to what heights a man may rise in a moment of crisis, and then show a nobility which neither he nor anyone else knew was in him.
Man is a jumble of vices and virtues, goodness and badness, of selfishness and unselfishness, of fears of all kinds and the courage to face them, of tendencies and predispositions which lure him this way and that. He is made up of elements so discordant that it is amazing that they can exist together in the individual, and yet to come to terms with one another as to form a plausible harmony .
Jackson set forth the selfish aspect of human nature in primary colors. Of course there is some exaggeration in the story, but I don’t think that the exaggeration is any greater than a novel allows, because one of the most important aims of a novel is to attract the reader. The reason many people have been repulsed by this story is presumably because it is too real. They must have been afraid to admit that there is such a thing in the depths of their hearts.
The story begins with the following peaceful description. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth, of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."
I can think of no other novel in which the atmosphere between the first part and the last part is so drastically different than it is in this novel. Whether you like it or not, it must root itself in your memory after you read it.