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1993年に発表した『The Shipping News』（邦訳『港湾ニュース』で日本でも話題を呼んだ）でシカゴトリビューンズ・ハートランド賞、アイリッシュタイムズインターナショナルフィクション賞、ナショナルブックアワード、そしてピューリッツァー賞を受賞するなどまさに現在活躍中の女流作家アニー・プルーによる短編集。ジョン・アップダイクによってベスト・ストーリーズ・オブ・センチュリーに、ギャリソン・ケラーによっては「The Best American Short Stories 1998」に選ばれた1篇、O・ヘンリー・ショート・ストーリー集に収載された1篇などを含む、アメリカのワイオミング州を舞台とする11篇。
会話文がまったくなく、ナラティブのみで構成される「Job History」では、あるワイオミング州の男（元牧場主）の半生の記録が淡々とつづられる。次々と仕事を変えるが失敗ばかり、あげく息子には去られ妻も亡くす。しかし、それまで使うことのなかった「肉料理」の腕と、戻ってきた息子の趣味とを両立させて、「ステーキとバイクの店」を始めるところで物語は終わっている。
市井の人々のときに悲惨とさえいえる暮らしを、あくまでも叙情性を拝した写実主義で淡々と描く作風は収載11篇に共通している。ちなみにこれは、先に高い評価を受けた『The Shipping News』にも通じるトーンだ。（石井節子）
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time.
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace.
These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
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作者プルーは語っている。「故郷ワイオミングに関する短編集を書くにあたりできるだけ多くのテーマを織り込もうと思った」が、「ホモ・フォビアの概念がこの地方では強い感情だった」ので、「愛し合う2人のカウボーイが（自分たちの中の、あるいは周囲の）そんな感情のため何も実現できずに終わる話を書こうと思った」。また「牧場を廻ると、非常に静かな様子で家庭を持つこともなく１人年を重ねた男たちを何人も見かけたし、彼らが欲望ではないものをたたえた静かな眼差しで若い同僚達を見つめていたのも印象的だった」。「これほど時間がかかり自分に取り憑いた話は他になかった」し、「出版後、多くのカウボーイたちに『これは自分の物語だ』と言われたのも驚きだった」。適当に要約したが、そんなところだ。奇しくも、この本が世に出てから現実にワイオミング州ララミーでmatthew shepard事件（作中主人公たちが羊の放牧をしていたことを考えると名前さえ因縁めいている）が起こっている。何度も繰り返し読んだ短篇だが、改めて朗読（約１時間）を聞いて感じたのは、彼らの語る言葉の痛みの生々しさであり、読書中には素通りしていた自然の荒々しい美しさだった。An 極度なスリラー Giorgio Kostantinos 著''Quest
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Wyoming as a state of the soul
2004/2/3
形式:ペーパーバック
I am a grown-up, middle aged man not drawn much to sentimentality. I am not a practiced reader of fiction and I have spent only one night in Wyoming. I just finished reading the final story in the collection, "Brokeback Mountain",about ten minutes ago.
I still have tears in my eyes. It seems to me that I am falling out of a dream into the wet and chill February morning by San Francisco Bay where I now live. But the dream was of a place utterly familiar. I mean, emotionally familiar, familiar in memory, and evidently, familiar to my body. I can still feel the tingling just behind my cheekbones and the low-voltage electric discomfort in my chest. I guess Annie Proulx touched something in the geography of my own soul with her story. And even in the sadness that swirls around my eyes, I am grateful to her for that. And amazed that this woman could write so tellingly of men's hearts.
I said that I am a middle-aged man. So I have a history behind me. That's part of what makes you middle-aged. When you're young, who you want to be someday is the largest part of who you are. When you're middle-aged, the evidence begins to mount. The past is what it was and that is the largest part of who you are. It's harder to make believe anymore. And the story includes loss, confusion, missed opportunities, cowardice, fear, and memories of your own Brokeback Mountain. And sometimes the only redemption for the past, if it is redemption, is to remember it, fully. That's all.
Now that I am back in the waking world a bit more, I also want to say how beautifully Annie Proulx weaves the English language, with the kind of strength, color and contrapuntal roughness that makes it so earthy and satisfying. There were a few passages that I read out loud, just for the rhythm, the accents, the tumbled spring-thaw rush of sound. In a story about people not noted either for reflective insight or poetic diction, she has, paradoxically, by her own re-membering of them, let them be themselves, without apology, and yet re-situated them in a place of human grandeur.
I guess Aristotle had a point when he wrote about poetry as a moment of katharsis, of the compelling power of pity and fear. I bet he never thought he could find it on Brokeback Mountain.
I still have tears in my eyes. It seems to me that I am falling out of a dream into the wet and chill February morning by San Francisco Bay where I now live. But the dream was of a place utterly familiar. I mean, emotionally familiar, familiar in memory, and evidently, familiar to my body. I can still feel the tingling just behind my cheekbones and the low-voltage electric discomfort in my chest. I guess Annie Proulx touched something in the geography of my own soul with her story. And even in the sadness that swirls around my eyes, I am grateful to her for that. And amazed that this woman could write so tellingly of men's hearts.
I said that I am a middle-aged man. So I have a history behind me. That's part of what makes you middle-aged. When you're young, who you want to be someday is the largest part of who you are. When you're middle-aged, the evidence begins to mount. The past is what it was and that is the largest part of who you are. It's harder to make believe anymore. And the story includes loss, confusion, missed opportunities, cowardice, fear, and memories of your own Brokeback Mountain. And sometimes the only redemption for the past, if it is redemption, is to remember it, fully. That's all.
Now that I am back in the waking world a bit more, I also want to say how beautifully Annie Proulx weaves the English language, with the kind of strength, color and contrapuntal roughness that makes it so earthy and satisfying. There were a few passages that I read out loud, just for the rhythm, the accents, the tumbled spring-thaw rush of sound. In a story about people not noted either for reflective insight or poetic diction, she has, paradoxically, by her own re-membering of them, let them be themselves, without apology, and yet re-situated them in a place of human grandeur.
I guess Aristotle had a point when he wrote about poetry as a moment of katharsis, of the compelling power of pity and fear. I bet he never thought he could find it on Brokeback Mountain.
182 人中、172人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Proulx will break your heart with that last story--
2005/5/25
形式:ペーパーバック
--but the rest of the collection is powerful, too. If you haven't read Proulx, pick this one up. It's rough, raw, brutally honest storytelling.
But honestly, I can't explain what it is about Brokeback Mountain that makes me pull the book off the shelf at least twice a year since it came out five years ago. It's got to be one of the most intensely moving stories I've ever read in my life.
Those men, their lives. The scattered, fragile moments where they do connect, like that scene on the front porch when they haven't seen each other in four years or that moment where he finds the flannel shirts. Kick me in the gut while you grab my heart and rip it to shreds. You'll love it, I promise.
I'm sure that some people unfamiliar with Proulx's work or this story will permit the film adaptation to become another banal symbol of those crazy gays taking over EVERYTHING--and deny themselves the pleasure of reading good, solid American fiction.
Regardless, do yourself a huge favor: read this story before seeing the film (fingers crossed).
But honestly, I can't explain what it is about Brokeback Mountain that makes me pull the book off the shelf at least twice a year since it came out five years ago. It's got to be one of the most intensely moving stories I've ever read in my life.
Those men, their lives. The scattered, fragile moments where they do connect, like that scene on the front porch when they haven't seen each other in four years or that moment where he finds the flannel shirts. Kick me in the gut while you grab my heart and rip it to shreds. You'll love it, I promise.
I'm sure that some people unfamiliar with Proulx's work or this story will permit the film adaptation to become another banal symbol of those crazy gays taking over EVERYTHING--and deny themselves the pleasure of reading good, solid American fiction.
Regardless, do yourself a huge favor: read this story before seeing the film (fingers crossed).
80 人中、75人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
I cried after reading this book
2005/9/21
形式:カセット|Amazonが確認した購入
The first time I picked up Close Range: Wyoming Stories.
I thought MMm...Just another collection of boring stories about
white rural hicks. I've read stuff like this before. Usually set in the South. With the typical set of colorful charicters.
From the pompous upper crust to reddest of rednecks.
But I started reading. And kept on reading, for nine hours
strait!
I couldn't put it down. Annie Proulx is one powerful writer!
She made me rethink my attitudes about how rural folk lived.
Their lives are just as complex, mixed up and sad as us city dwellers are.
I chuckled at the first two or three stories. Felt empathy for
fourth. but it was the last story, Brokeback Mountain. That
one tore my heart out.
I ached for the charicters of Ennis and Jack. They lived in a
time that had no kind words for what were or how they felt about
each other. If they had lived 3000 years earlier or just 40 years later they could've been very happy together. But spending all those years apart. Only seeing each other maybe one or if they were lucky twice a year. Just made what they had even more bitter sweet. The ending had me in tears for three days, And I'm not the emotional type!
I've just ordered the audio version. and can't wait to
hear this wonderful book set to the spoken word.
Please, Please buy this book!
I thought MMm...Just another collection of boring stories about
white rural hicks. I've read stuff like this before. Usually set in the South. With the typical set of colorful charicters.
From the pompous upper crust to reddest of rednecks.
But I started reading. And kept on reading, for nine hours
strait!
I couldn't put it down. Annie Proulx is one powerful writer!
She made me rethink my attitudes about how rural folk lived.
Their lives are just as complex, mixed up and sad as us city dwellers are.
I chuckled at the first two or three stories. Felt empathy for
fourth. but it was the last story, Brokeback Mountain. That
one tore my heart out.
I ached for the charicters of Ennis and Jack. They lived in a
time that had no kind words for what were or how they felt about
each other. If they had lived 3000 years earlier or just 40 years later they could've been very happy together. But spending all those years apart. Only seeing each other maybe one or if they were lucky twice a year. Just made what they had even more bitter sweet. The ending had me in tears for three days, And I'm not the emotional type!
I've just ordered the audio version. and can't wait to
hear this wonderful book set to the spoken word.
Please, Please buy this book!
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