Back الطريق الثوري Arabic রেভলূশন্যারি রোড Bengali/Bangla Revolutionary Road (bog) Danish Zeiten des Aufruhrs (Roman) German Vía revolucionaria Spanish جاده انقلابی (رمان) Persian חלון פנורמי HE Revolutionary Road Italian Revolutionary Road (livro) Portuguese
 First edition | |
| Author | Richard Yates |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Tragedy[1][2][3] |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 31 December 1961 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 337 pp |
| OCLC | 171266 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.Y335 Re6 PS3575.A83 |
Revolutionary Road is American author Richard Yates's debut novel about 1950s suburban life on the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. When published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and The New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted ... a remarkable and deeply troubling book."[4] In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.[5]
When DeWitt Henry and Geoffrey Clark interviewed Yates for the Winter 1972 issue of literary journal Ploughshares, Yates detailed the title's subtext:
I think I meant it more as an indictment of American life in the 1950s. Because during the fifties there was a general lust for conformity all over this country, by no means only in the suburbs—a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price.[6]
A film adaptation of the book, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Kathy Bates, directed by Sam Mendes, and written by Justin Haythe, was released in 2008.
- ^ Osborn, Carly (May 14, 2020). Tragic Novels, René Girard and the American Dream. p. 23. ISBN 9781350083493.
- ^ Mullan, John (October 8, 2004). "Sweet Sorrow". The Guardian. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
So he adds an epilogue-like final chapter, turning the Wheelers' domestic tragedy into, exactly, a story that their neighbours tell.
- ^ Bercovitch, Sacvan; Patell, Cyrus R. K. (1994). The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940-1990. p. 218. ISBN 9780521497329.
- ^ Ford, Richard (April 9, 2000). "American beauty (Circa 1955)". The New York Times. New York Times Book Review. Archived from the original on 2010-07-28. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
- ^ "All-Time 100 Novels", Time, 2005.
- ^ Henry, DeWitt and Clark, Geoffrey. "An Interview with Richard Yates," Ploughshares, Winter 1972.