Frases de John Cheever

John Cheever , contista americano. De entre as suas obras mais famosas contam-se The Stories of John Cheever que recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção em 1979 e Falconer.

Por vezes apelidado de "Chekhov dos subúrbios", a sua ficção utiliza como cenário o Upper East Side de Manhattan, os subúrbios de Westchester County, em Nova Iorque, e pequenas vilas e cidades de New England e South Shore, perto de Quincy, no Massachusetts, onde o escritor nasceu.

Cheever ficou conhecido pelos seus contos , mas também escreveu romances, como The Wapshot Chronicle , The Wapshot Scandal , Bullet Park, and Falconer.

A sua obra foca-se na dualidade da natureza humana: por vezes dramatizada como a disparidade entre a persona social conservadora dos personagens e a sua degradação interior, e por vezes como o conflito entre dois personagens que reflectem pólos contraditórios - luz e sombra, carne e espírito. Muitos dos seus livros exprimem também a nostalgia de um estilo de vida em extinção , caracterizado por um profundo senso de comunidade e de tradições culturais, em oposição ao nomadismo alienante dos subúrbios.

Uma compilação dos seus contos , The Stories of John Cheever, foi premiado com o Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção, em 1979, e com o National Book Critics Circle Award. Em 1982, seis semanas antes da sua morte, Cheever foi galardoado com a Medalha Nacional para Literatura pela American Academy of Arts and Letters. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Maio 1912 – 18. Junho 1982   •   Outros nomes جان چیور
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John Cheever frases e citações

“A arte é o triunfo sobre o caos.”

Art is the triumph over chaos
Some People, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel‎ - Página 2, de John Cheever - Publicado por Harper, 1961 - 175 páginas

John Cheever: Frases em inglês

“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

“I was here on earth because I chose to be.”

John Cheever livro The Stories of John Cheever

Fonte: The Stories of John Cheever

“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1956 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1952 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories of his excellence.”

On the assassination of John F. Kennedy
The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1955 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”

Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978).

“Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.”

John Cheever livro The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”

“The Bella Lingua” in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964).