|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Disturbing the Peace (Vintage Classics)
und über 1 Million weitere Bücher verfügbar für Amazon Kindle .
Erfahren Sie mehr
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Gutschein erhalten
Tauschen Sie jetzt Disturbing the Peace (Vintage Classics) gegen einen Amazon-Gutschein in Höhe von EUR 0,25 ein - einlösbar für Tausende von Artikeln bei Amazon.de. Entdecken Sie mehr eintauschbare Bücher im Bücher Trade-In Shop. Bitte beachten Sie die Teilnahmebedingungen.
 Jetzt für Amazon Student anmelden und um 20% erhöhten Eintauschwert sichern. |
Wird oft zusammen gekauft
Produktinformation
|
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Richard Yates auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Richard Yates auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
Kurzbeschreibung
John Wilder ist erfolgreich und mit einer liebevollen Familie gesegnet. Aber etwas scheint nicht zu stimmen in seinem Leben, und mit der Unzufriedenheit steigt auch sein Alkoholkonsum, bis er eines Abends vor dem Abgrund steht und seiner Frau telefonisch mitteilt, es sei sicherer für sie, er käme nicht nach Hause. Ein eindringlicher und unvergesslicher Blick in die dunklen Winkel der Psyche, von einem der wichtigsten amerikanischen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts
Synopsis
John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home.
Welche anderen Artikel kaufen Kunden, nachdem sie diesen Artikel angesehen haben?
In diesem Buch
(Mehr dazu)
Vorgeschlagene Tags zu ähnlichen Produkten(Was ist das?)Setzen Sie den ersten relevanten Tag hinzu (ein Schlüsselwort, das mit diesem Produkt in engem Zusammenhang steht).
|
Kundenrezensionen
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Richard Yates, who was born 1926 in Yonkers, New York and died 1992 in Birmingham, Alabama, seemed to be a writer who described his own career by the titles of his books. Firstly not recognized as an artist of high quality, his narratives and prose fiction became suddenly highly appreciated, to be forgotten later on and rediscovered decades later. His novel Disturbing the Piece, edited in 1975, belongs to the hallmarks of the mentioned titles with a more than mono-thematic sense. After Revolutionary Road (1961), which gave Yates a lot of attention, he was almost forgotten in the seventies and he indeed disturbed the piece of a society already rattled by a cultural revolution but still hold in its social grid irons. Only in the last decades some kind of renaissance came up, caused by the shaken consciousness of a middle class in deep turmoil.
Disturbing the Peace, acting in New York and later Hollywood in the sixties is referring to the upcoming unease of members of the lower middle class, living in standardized suburbs, earning enough money to participate in the progress of society but working in jobs which spend money but no sense at all. The protagonist, John Wilder, employed in advertisement, married to a nice woman and father of a son, shapes his rebellion by alcohol abuse. In one of these cases he ends up in New York Bellevue psychiatric hospital where he faces the possible consequences of his escapades. Deeply traumatized by the treatment there, he starts visiting doctors and joining meetings of the AA. Nonetheless it does not stop him drinking too much. During a business encounter he meets a nice young girl, wealthy by birth and 16 years younger. The affair brings her to the idea to make a movie about of Wilders experience at Bellevue. During the production Wilder has a breakdown.
After he is released and back in New York the young girl leaves him because she is going with a ghost writer of Robert Kennedy (which was a step in the real career of Richard Yates!) to Washington. Wilder is disappointed but re-establishes his marriage and continues to drink heavily until the girl comes back and tells him that she quit the relation to the writer, met her father who is rich and who gave her all the money they want to produce the movie in Hollywood. Wilder quits his job and leaves his family to go with the girl to Hollywood where they have a good start with an agent but where his alcohol abuse is facing a new dimension. The girl leaves him finally and he ends up in California psychiatry where he will never be released again.
The most indicating thesis behind the narrative structure seems to have more than one message. Firstly the shape of the existence of middle class has a deep contradiction in itself: It can deliver a better kind of living in a material way, but lacks in giving more sense. Secondly revolting in using drugs is a lethal illusion. And finally society is closing you up in a madhouse if you do not accept the rules of social piece and convention. If one wants to get an authentic impression of the roaring seventieth in western civilization the book will be a magnificent choice.
Disturbing the Peace, acting in New York and later Hollywood in the sixties is referring to the upcoming unease of members of the lower middle class, living in standardized suburbs, earning enough money to participate in the progress of society but working in jobs which spend money but no sense at all. The protagonist, John Wilder, employed in advertisement, married to a nice woman and father of a son, shapes his rebellion by alcohol abuse. In one of these cases he ends up in New York Bellevue psychiatric hospital where he faces the possible consequences of his escapades. Deeply traumatized by the treatment there, he starts visiting doctors and joining meetings of the AA. Nonetheless it does not stop him drinking too much. During a business encounter he meets a nice young girl, wealthy by birth and 16 years younger. The affair brings her to the idea to make a movie about of Wilders experience at Bellevue. During the production Wilder has a breakdown.
After he is released and back in New York the young girl leaves him because she is going with a ghost writer of Robert Kennedy (which was a step in the real career of Richard Yates!) to Washington. Wilder is disappointed but re-establishes his marriage and continues to drink heavily until the girl comes back and tells him that she quit the relation to the writer, met her father who is rich and who gave her all the money they want to produce the movie in Hollywood. Wilder quits his job and leaves his family to go with the girl to Hollywood where they have a good start with an agent but where his alcohol abuse is facing a new dimension. The girl leaves him finally and he ends up in California psychiatry where he will never be released again.
The most indicating thesis behind the narrative structure seems to have more than one message. Firstly the shape of the existence of middle class has a deep contradiction in itself: It can deliver a better kind of living in a material way, but lacks in giving more sense. Secondly revolting in using drugs is a lethal illusion. And finally society is closing you up in a madhouse if you do not accept the rules of social piece and convention. If one wants to get an authentic impression of the roaring seventieth in western civilization the book will be a magnificent choice.
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen auf Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
17 Rezensionen
23 von 23 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Tough in Every Way
24. November 2002
Format:Taschenbuch
Some have said this is Yates' weakest work, and I suppose it might be, but I think credit has to be given to Yates for even managing to pull this off. This is a tough story to write, a man's journey from sanity to insanity. Yates stays in his usual third person narration all the way, even when the main character goes completely nuts, so his delusions become our delusions.
It's not a pleasant experience by any stretch of the imagination - we get a no-holds-barred view into Bellevue and the complete breakdown of the protagonist. There isn't a likeable character in the entire novel, which isn't that different from Yates' other works, but the problem here is that it's very tough to have any sympathy for the main character, John Wilder. In Yates' more successful books, no matter how nasty the characters, we can't help but to feel for their faults. Not so here.
Disturbing the Peace may not have the amazing pace of The Easter Parade or the driving power of Revolutionary Road, but it's still a pretty good read. It's a tough book to find nowadays, so if you can get your hands on it, pick it up.
It's not a pleasant experience by any stretch of the imagination - we get a no-holds-barred view into Bellevue and the complete breakdown of the protagonist. There isn't a likeable character in the entire novel, which isn't that different from Yates' other works, but the problem here is that it's very tough to have any sympathy for the main character, John Wilder. In Yates' more successful books, no matter how nasty the characters, we can't help but to feel for their faults. Not so here.
Disturbing the Peace may not have the amazing pace of The Easter Parade or the driving power of Revolutionary Road, but it's still a pretty good read. It's a tough book to find nowadays, so if you can get your hands on it, pick it up.
17 von 17 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
The Saga of the Downward Spiral
24. August 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
This novel, by one of my favorite late 20th century writers, is a compellingly realistic story of the downward spiral of an alcoholic. It's power comes from the exacting insights into the mundane existence of the characters trying to survive and thrive in modern society; along a view into the mind of a man making a step-by-step descent into a private hell. As Yates draws you into Wilder's mind, you find yourself,like the main character, unable to see the bottom, until you have made the slow descent into insanity.
I found the book incredibly insightful, with accurate representations of the madness of addiction. The book never descends to the level of moralizing or sermonizing, and that makes it all the more powerful. Yates creates an empathy between reader and character, and that makes the outcome all the more gripping.
I found the book incredibly insightful, with accurate representations of the madness of addiction. The book never descends to the level of moralizing or sermonizing, and that makes it all the more powerful. Yates creates an empathy between reader and character, and that makes the outcome all the more gripping.
16 von 16 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
He never disappoints
2. Februar 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
This is the story of John C. Wilder and his descent into insanity. Wilder is a highly strung hard drinking affluent salesman, a husband and father. He tries to hide his low self-esteem which stems from a mild dyslexia and being somewhat short in stature. He seeks to fill the void in his life through drinking and women.
At one point, all of Wilder's ambitions seem within his grasp. He falls in love with a woman who encourages him to pursue his dream of producing films, and it seems he has a real talent for it. However, the seeds of insanity are sown within him. Time after time, he reaches out for help, to his family, to psychiatry, to AA, looking for understanding and support, but every reed breaks at his grasp. It is a disturbing novel. We are left doubting if anything could have averted his fate.
Yates always gets everything right. The dialogue, speech cadences, observations, structure: his writing is a beautiful thing to observe. He is never simplistic. Yates has a reputation for being a devasting chronicler of American suburbia. He is that, but in this novel he shows that he can deliniate urban angst and despair as well.
At one point, all of Wilder's ambitions seem within his grasp. He falls in love with a woman who encourages him to pursue his dream of producing films, and it seems he has a real talent for it. However, the seeds of insanity are sown within him. Time after time, he reaches out for help, to his family, to psychiatry, to AA, looking for understanding and support, but every reed breaks at his grasp. It is a disturbing novel. We are left doubting if anything could have averted his fate.
Yates always gets everything right. The dialogue, speech cadences, observations, structure: his writing is a beautiful thing to observe. He is never simplistic. Yates has a reputation for being a devasting chronicler of American suburbia. He is that, but in this novel he shows that he can deliniate urban angst and despair as well.
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
|
|
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
|
