Shirley Jackson

Shirley Hardie JACKSON (naskita la 14-an de decembro 1916 en San-Francisko; mortis la 8-an de aŭgusto 1965 en Norda Bennington, Vermonto) estis usona verkistino, konata ĉefe pro siaj verkoj de hororo kaj mistero (d:Q6585139). Ŝia verkista kariero daŭris pli ol du jardekojn, dum kiuj ŝi verkis ses romanojn, du memuarojn kaj pli ol 200 novelojn.

Ŝi estas plej konata pro siaj hororaj romanoj kaj rakontoj kiel "The Haunting of Hill House" kaj "The Lottery"  (La Loterio), kiuj estis filmitaj plurfoje.

Shirley Jackson verkis en diversaj ĝenroj: unuflanke, ŝi povis priskribi la facilecon kaj kaoson de ordinara hejma vivo kun senantaŭjuĝa gajeco; aliflanke, ŝi verkis hororrakontojn, en kiuj esence nenormalaj kondutoj ŝajnas normalaj. En ĉiu ĝenro, tamen, ŝi verkis kun rimarkinda koncizeco kaj stilŝparemo. Ŝi estis populara aŭtorino dum sia vivo, kaj en la lastaj jaroj ŝia verko ricevis plian atenton. Ŝi influis Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale kaj Richard Matheson. Ŝia skribstilo ofte estas klasifikita sub la ĝenro de suda gotika literaturo.

La edzo de Jackson, literatura kritikisto Stanley Edgar Heyman, skribis en la enkonduko al postmorta kolekto de ŝiaj noveloj, ke ŝi "sisteme rifuzis doni intervjuojn, komenti aŭ reklami sian verkon iel ajn, paroli publike aŭ esti kolumnisto por dimanĉaj gazetoj. Ŝi kredis, ke ŝiaj verkoj, tra la jaroj, rakontos sufiĉe klaran historion pri ŝi." Heyman argumentis, ke la pli malhelaj aspektoj de la verkoj de Jackson ne estis, kiel iuj kritikistoj asertis, la rezulto de "privataj, eĉ neŭrozaj, fantazioj", sed Jackson celis reflekti ĉiujn homajn timojn de la epoko de la Malvarma Milito, kiel "delikatan kaj aŭtentan anatomion de nia tempo, precize respondantan al la simboloj de nia maltrankvila mondo de koncentrejoj kaj bomboj."

Kvankam ŝi verkis plurajn kritike aklamitajn kaj popularajn romanojn, ŝia plej konata verko estas la novelo " La Loterio ", kiu prezentas la malpuran subventron de kampara usona urbo. Linemaia Friedman, aŭtoro de kritika biografio pri Shirley Jackson, notas, ke "La Loterio", publikigita en la numero de la 26-a de junio 1948 de The New Yorker, ricevis respondon "male al iu ajn alia rakonto en The New Yorker ". Centoj da leteroj alvenis, kiujn Jackson priskribis kiel "ŝokon, konjekton kaj malmodernajn atakojn".

 En Esperanto aperis 
La Loterio trad. de Barry Friedman.

 Verkaro 

 Romanoj 

 The Road Through the Wall (Farrar, Straus, 1948)
 Hangsaman (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951)
 The Bird's Nest (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954)
 The Sundial (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958)
 The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
 We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Viking, 1962)
 Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s, ed. Ruth Franklin (Library of America, 2020)

 Rakontoj 

 "About Two Nice People", :en:Ladies' Home Journal, July 1951
 "Account Closed", :en:Good Housekeeping, April 1950
 "After You, My Dear Alphonse", :en:The New Yorker, January 1943
 "Afternoon in Linen", The New Yorker, September 4, 1943
 "All the Girls Were Dancing", :en:Collier's, November 11, 1950
 "All She Said Was Yes", Vogue, November 1, 1962
 "Alone in a Den of Cubs", :en:Woman's Day, December 1953
 "Aunt Gertrude", :en:Harper's, April 1954
 "The Bakery", Peacock Alley, November 1944
 "The Beautiful Stranger", Come Along with Me (Viking, 1968)
 "Birthday Party", Vogue, January 1, 1963
 "The Box", :en:Woman's Home Companion, November 1952
 "Bulletin", :en:The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1954
 "The Bus", :en:The Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1965
 "Call Me Ishmael", Spectre, Fall 1939
 "A Cauliflower in Her Hair", Mademoiselle, December 1944
 "Charles", Mademoiselle, July 1948
 "The Clothespin Dolls", Woman's Day, March 1953
 "Colloquy", The New Yorker, August 5, 1944
 "Come Dance with Me in Ireland", The New Yorker, May 15, 1943
 "Concerning … Tomorrow", Syracusan, March 1939
 "The Daemon Lover ['The Phantom Lover']", Woman's Home Companion, February 1949
 "Daughter, Come Home", Charm, May 1944
 "Day of Glory", Woman's Day, February 1953
 "Dinner for a Gentleman", Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, September 2016
 "Don't Tell Daddy", Woman's Home Companion, February 1954
 "Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors", The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
 "The Dummy", April 1949
 "Elizabeth", The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
 "Every Boy Should Learn to Play the Trumpet", Woman's Home Companion, October 1956
 "Family Magician", Woman's Home Companion, September 1949
 "Family Treasures", Let Me Tell You, (Random House, 2015)
 "A Fine Old Firm", The New Yorker, March 4, 1944
 "The First Car Is the Hardest", Harper's, February 1952
 "Flower Garden", The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
 "The Friends", Charm, November 1953
 "The Gift", Charm, December 1944
 "The Good Wife", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "Got a Letter from Jimmy", The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
 "A Great Voice Stilled", :en:Playboy, March 1960
 "Had We But World Enough", Spectre, Spring 1940
 "Happy Birthday to Baby", Charm, November 1952
 "Home", Ladies' Home Journal, August 1965
 "The Homecoming", Charm, April 1945
 "The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "The House", Woman's Day, May 1952
 "I Don't Kiss Strangers", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "Indians Live in Tents", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "An International Incident", The New Yorker, September 12, 1943
 "I.O.U"., Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "The Island", New Mexico Quarterly Review, 1950, vol. 3
 "It Isn't the Money", The New Yorker, August 25, 1945
 "It's Only a Game", Harper's, May 1956
 "Jack the Ripper", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "Journey with a Lady", Harper's, July 1952
 "Liaison a la Cockroach", Syracusan, April 1939
 ":en:Like Mother Used to Make", The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
 "Little Dog Lost", Charm, October 1943
 "A Little Magic", Woman's Home Companion, January 1956
 "Little Old Lady", Mademoiselle, September 1944
 ":en:The Lottery", The New Yorker, June 26, 1948
 ":en:Louisa, Please Come Home", Ladies' Home Journal, May 1960
 ":en:The Lovely House", :en:New World Writing, n.2, 1952
 "The Lovely Night", Collier's, April 8, 1950
 "Lucky to Get Away", Woman's Day, August 1953
 "The Man in the Woods", The New Yorker, April 28, 2014
 "Men with Their Big Shoes", :en:Yale Review, March 1947
 "The Missing Girl", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1957
 "Monday Morning", Woman's Home Companion, November 1951
 "The Most Wonderful Thing", Good Housekeeping, June 1952
 "Mother Is a Fortune Hunter", Woman's Home Companion, May 1954
 "Mrs. Melville Makes a Purchase", Charm, October 1951
 "My Friend", Syracusan, December 1938
 "My Life in Cats", Spectre, Summer 1940
 "My Life with R.H. Macy", :en:The New Republic, December 22, 1941
 "My Son and the Bully", Good Housekeeping, October 1949
 "Nice Day for a Baby", Woman's Home Companion, July 1952
 "Night We All Had Grippe", Harper's, January 1952
 "Nothing to Worry About", Charm, July 1953
 "Of Course", The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
 "The Omen", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1958
 "On the House", The New Yorker, October 30, 1943
 "One Last Chance to Call", :en:McCall's, April 1956
 "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955
 "The Order of Charlotte's Going", Charm, July 1954
 "Paranoia", The New Yorker, August 5, 2013
 "Pillar of Salt", Mademoiselle, October 1948
 ":en:The Possibility of Evil", The Saturday Evening Post, December 18, 1965
 "Queen of the May", McCall's, April 1955
 "The Renegade", Harper's, November 1949
 "Root of Evil", Fantastic, March–April 1953
 "The Second Mrs. Ellenoy", Reader's Digest, July 1953
 "Seven Types of Ambiguity", Story, 1943
 "Shopping Trip", Woman's Home Companion, June 1953
 "The Smoking Room", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "The Sneaker Crisis", Woman's Day, October 1956
 "So Late on Sunday Morning", Woman's Home Companion, September 1953
 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", McSweeney's #47, 2014
 "The Story We Used to Tell", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "The Strangers", Collier's, May 10, 1952
 "Strangers in Town", The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959
 "Summer Afternoon", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "The Summer People", Charm, 1950
 "The Third Baby's the Easiest", Harper's, May 1949
 "The Tooth", The Hudson Review, 1949, vol. 1, no. 4
 "Trial by Combat", The New Yorker, December 16, 1944
 "The Very Strange House Next Door", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "The Villager", The American Mercury, August 1944
 "Visions of Sugarplums", Woman's Home Companion, December 1952
 "What a Thought", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1996)
 "When Things Get Dark", The New Yorker, December 30, 1944
 "Whistler's Grandmother", The New Yorker, May 5, 1945
 "The Wishing Dime", Good Housekeeping, September 1949
 "The Witch", The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus, 1949)
 "Worldly Goods", Woman's Day, May 1953
 "Y and I", Syracusan, October 1938
 "Y and I and the Ouija Board", Syracusan, November 1938

 Referencoj 

 Eksteraj ligiloj 


 Shirley Jackson ĉe Encyclopædia Britannica Online
 Jackson, Shirley ĉe The Encyclopedia of FantasySondosieroj'''

 "La Loterio" : NBC-Novelo'', NBC-radio, 1951
 La Demona Amanto kaj la Loterio: Kiel Legite de Shirley Jackson, (Folkways Records, 1960)

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