The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
「The Tomb of Wrestling」は、ジョー・アン・ビアードによる短編で、『The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018』の冒頭に収録された。記憶、身体、親密な関係の緊張を静かに追い、個人の経験の細部から喪失とつながりの感覚を浮かび上がらせる。
作品情報
身体と記憶が触れ合う場所で、関係の痛みと親密さが静かに形をとる。
ジョー・アン・ビアードの「The Tomb of Wrestling」は、文芸誌掲載後に『The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018』へ収録された受賞短編。作品単体の単行本は確認できないため、識別子は受賞作を収録する Anchor のアンソロジーに基づく。ビアードらしい繊細な観察によって、身体的な近さと記憶の層が重なり合う。
レビュー要約
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収録巻全体の評価では、短編形式の詩的な性質と完成度の高い作品群が支持されている。本作も、静かな観察から感情の深部へ届く筆致が印象に残る。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Anchor
- 発売日
- 2018-09-04
- ページ数
- 432ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.1 x 2.2 x 20.3 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780525436584
- ISBN-10
- 0525436588
- 価格
- 3300 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. "The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, Tin House "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review "Nayla," Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner "Lucky Dragon," Viet Dinh, Ploughshares "Stop ’n’ Go," Michael Parker, New England Review "Past Perfect Continuous," Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review "Inversion of Marcia," Thomas Bolt, n+1 "Nights in Logar," Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space "How We Eat," Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch "Deaf and Blind," Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker "Why Were They Throwing Bricks?," Jenny Zhang, n+1 "An Amount of Discretion," Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review "Queen Elizabeth," Brad Felver, One Story "The Stamp Collector," Dave King, Fence "More or Less Like a Man," Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies," Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope "Up Here," Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares "The Houses That Are Left Behind," Brenda Walker, The Kenyon Review "We Keep Them Anyway," Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review "Solstice," Anne Enright, The New Yorker Prize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent
Laura Furman , series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of several books, including the story collection The Mother Who Stayed , she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas.
レビュー
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Good book to read.
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Good book
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but not as many good vs bad stories as in some past years. I really didn't care for The Tomb of Wrestling which was selected by two of the jurors as their favorite. For me it was way too long and included much irrelevant side-information almost like the author were practicing for writing a novel. My favorite in this collection was Queen Elizabeth by Brad Felver also How We Eat by Lara Vapnyar An Amount of Discretion by Lauren Alwan Why Were They Throwing Bricks by Jenny Zhang Nayla by Youmna Chlala and Counterblast by Marjorie Celon Worth the Read as Always!
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Love everythingI have read so far.
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The stories in this collection are all well-written and challenged me to work my mind as I read them. However, I was expecting surprise endings and these didn't provide them. My bad. As literary shorts, these are good, much like the ones you would find in Glimmer Train magazine.
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