John Cheever

John Cheever

출생 : 1912-05-27, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

사망 : 1982-06-18

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John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote four novels, comprising The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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John Cheever
John Cheever

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Parc
Parc
Novel
Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by his severe judgment of the world and a desire to be part of it. One day, their paths meet. Nail sees this meeting as an opportunity to create a new friendship. On his side, Hammer sees it as a new reason for living : to crucify the perfect image of the happy western man and his incarnation in the person of Georges Nail. A nail is the perfect victim for a hammer.
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Writer
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Narrator
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
The Five Forty-Eight
The Five Forty-Eight
Story
The Five Forty-Eight, drawn from a Cheever story about the fictional New York suburb of Shady Hill, concerns an advertising man, John Blake (Laurence Luckinbill), who is emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him. His disturbed secretary, Miss Dent (Mary Beth Hurt), whom he has seduced and then fired and discarded, pursues him harrowingly, and in a final scene in which she holds him at gunpoint in a field beyond the Shady Hill railroad station, she forces him to confront the squalor of his life.
O Youth and Beauty!
O Youth and Beauty!
Story
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasingly unsettled in his life, yearning for the glories of his athletic youth and watching them fade further in the distance with accumulating age. Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
The Sorrows of Gin
The Sorrows of Gin
Story
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
애증의 세월
애증의 세월
Story
늦여름의 아침, 누군가가 숲길을 걷는 소리가 들린다. 그는 수영복 차림의 네드(버트 랭커스터). 친구 집에 들러 수영하던 네드는 이웃의 풀장을 하나씩 건너며 자기 집으로 간다는 계획을 세운다. 그러나 친구들은 그를 낯설게 대하고, 과거의 기억 뒤로 아픈 상처들이 스쳐지나가며, 결국 그는 가려졌던 사실과 맞닥뜨리게 된다. 존 치버의 단편소설을 영화화한 은 일종의 알레고리다. 소비와 향락에 빠진 부르주아 혹은 기나긴 인생의 모험 끝에 초라한 자신을 돌아보는 영웅의 비극 말이다. 그리고 의 비극성은 영화의 스타일로 인해 더욱 강화된다.