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Mutluluk Fotoğrafı
Mutluluk Fotoğrafı
184 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2023
About the author
Richard Yates
78 books2,359 followersRichard Yates shone bright upon the publication of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. It drew unbridled praise and branded Yates an important, new writer. Kurt Vonnegut claimed that Revolutionary Road was The Great Gatsby of his time. William Styron described it as "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." Tennessee Williams went one further and said, "Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is."
In 1962 Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was published, his first collection of short stories. It too had praise heaped upon it. Kurt Vonnegut said it was "the best short-story collection ever written by an American."
Yates' writing skills were further utilized when, upon returning from Los Angeles, he began working as a speechwriter for then-Senator Robert F. Kennedy until the assassination of JFK. From there he moved onto Iowa where, as a creative writing teacher, he would influence and inspire writers such as Andre Dubus and Dewitt Henry.
His third novel, Disturbing the Peace, was published in 1975. Perhaps his second most well-known novel, The Easter Parade, was published in 1976. The story follows the lives of the Grimes sisters and ends in typical Yatesian fashion, replicating the disappointed lives of Revolutionary Road.
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.
It was to his school and army days that Richard turned to for his next novel, A Good School, which was quickly followed by his second collection of short stories, Liars in Love. Young Hearts Crying emerged in 1984 followed two years later with Cold Spring Harbour, which would prove to be his final completed novel.
Like the fate of his hero, Flaubert, whose novel Madame Bovary influenced Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade, Richard Yates' works are enjoying a posthumous renaissance, attracting newly devoted fans across the Atlantic and beyond.
In 1962 Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was published, his first collection of short stories. It too had praise heaped upon it. Kurt Vonnegut said it was "the best short-story collection ever written by an American."
Yates' writing skills were further utilized when, upon returning from Los Angeles, he began working as a speechwriter for then-Senator Robert F. Kennedy until the assassination of JFK. From there he moved onto Iowa where, as a creative writing teacher, he would influence and inspire writers such as Andre Dubus and Dewitt Henry.
His third novel, Disturbing the Peace, was published in 1975. Perhaps his second most well-known novel, The Easter Parade, was published in 1976. The story follows the lives of the Grimes sisters and ends in typical Yatesian fashion, replicating the disappointed lives of Revolutionary Road.
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.
It was to his school and army days that Richard turned to for his next novel, A Good School, which was quickly followed by his second collection of short stories, Liars in Love. Young Hearts Crying emerged in 1984 followed two years later with Cold Spring Harbour, which would prove to be his final completed novel.
Like the fate of his hero, Flaubert, whose novel Madame Bovary influenced Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade, Richard Yates' works are enjoying a posthumous renaissance, attracting newly devoted fans across the Atlantic and beyond.
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October 17, 2026
Yates külliyatını kronolojik sıralamayla okumaya niyetlenmiştim; eksiklerimi tamamlayayım derken üç yıl geçmiş... Daha fazla ertelememek için kitaplığımdaki üç kitaptan Mutluluk Fotoğrafı'na gitti elim. İyi ki! Çarpıldım, bayıldım romana...Benzerlerini defalarca okuduğum kurgunun etkileyiciliği, Grimes ailesinin fertlerinin birbirinden zamanla uzaklaşmasının altındaki sebepleri yazarın son derece gerçekçi şekilde ortaya koyması ve kadınların duygularını anlayabilmesi bence. Özellikle iki kız kardeşin farklı yaşamlarına rağmen sonunda anneleri gibi aynı yazgıda birleşmelerine giden süreç- kendi yolunu seçip ayakta kalabilme, mutluluğu bulma arayışı, yürütülemeyen ilişkilerde dile getirilememiş sözler, geçiştirilen sorunlar, hayalkırıklığı ve pişmanlıklar- o kadar tanıdık ki; sanki altmışlı yıllarda değil de günümüzde, hemen yanıbaşımızda yaşanan bir aile dramı Mutluluk Fotoğrafı. Bu yüzden zamansız.Yates ile tanışmak isteyenlere öneririm.
October 19, 2026
kitapçıda gezerken tatlış bir çalışan tarafından bana önerilen bu kitap, Yates’in okuduğum ilk işi oldu. kendisinin süper bir gözlemci olduğunu düşünüyorum. kitaptaki bütün karakterlere karşı hislerim inanılmaz şekilde akışkandı. yer yer fena da rahatsız hissettim. ilginç bir deneyimdi ve müthiş aktı.
June 8, 2025
İki kadın tek çıkmaz. Mutsuzluk fotoğrafı :(
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