戈尔·维达尔

**尤金・盧瑟・戈爾・維達爾**（英語：**Eugene Luther Gore Vidal**，1925 年 10 月 3 日 —2012 年 7 月 31 日），美國小說家，劇作家，和散文家。出身於顯赫的政治家庭，戈爾是美國政治的犀利評論者。他於 1948 年寫的小說《城市與梁柱》（_The City and the Pillar_），作為美國第一部明確反映同性戀的主要小說引起社會爭議。

2012 年 7 月 31 日，其外甥向新聞媒體說戈爾・維達爾於當天在家中因肺炎併發症去世，享壽 86 歲。

## 著作

### 文章與非小說

* _Rocking the Boat_ (1963)
* _Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship_ (1969)
* _Sex, Death and Money_ (1969) (paperback compilation)
* _Homage to Daniel Shays_ (1972)
* _Matters of Fact and of Fiction_ (1977)
* _Views from a Window_ Co-Editor (1981)
* _The Second American Revolution_ (1982)
* _Armageddon?_ (1987) (UK only)
* _At Home_ (1988)
* _A View From The Diner's Club_ (1991) (UK only)
* _Screening History_ (1992) ISBN 0-233-98803-3
* _Decline and Fall of the American Empire_ (1992) ISBN 1-878825-00-3
* _United States: essays 1952–1992_ (1993) ISBN 0-7679-0806-6
* _Palimpsest: a memoir_ (1995) ISBN 0-679-44038-0
* _Virgin Islands_ (1997) (UK only)
* _The American Presidency_ (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1
* _Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings_ (1999)
* _The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000_ (2001) ISBN 0-375-72639-X (there is also a much shorter UK edition)
* _Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated_, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X
* _Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta_, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-502-1
* _Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson_ (2003) ISBN 0-300-10171-6
* _Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia_ (2004) ISBN 1-56025-744-X
* _Point to Point Navigation : A Memoir_ (2006) ISBN 0-385-51721-1
* _The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal_ (2008) ISBN 0-385-52484-6
* _Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare_ (2009) ISBN 0-810-95049-9

### 舞台劇

* _Visit to a Small Planet_ (1957) ISBN 0-8222-1211-0
* _The Best Man_ (1960)
* _On the March to the Sea_ (1960–1961, 2004)
* _Romulus_ (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play _Romulus der Große_) (1962)
* _Weekend_ (1968)
* _Drawing Room Comedy_ (1970)
* _An Evening with Richard Nixon_ (1970) ISBN 0-394-71869-0
* _On the March to the Sea_ (2005)

### 小說

* _Williwaw_ (1946) ISBN 0-226-85585-6
* _In a Yellow Wood_ (1947)
* 《城市與梁柱》（1948） ISBN 1-4000-3037-4
* _The Season of Comfort_ (1949) ISBN 0-233-98971-4
* _A Search for the King_ (1950) ISBN 0-345-25455-4
* _Dark Green, Bright Red_ (1950) ISBN 0-233-98913-7 (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" _Dreaming War_)
* _The Judgment of Paris_ (1952) ISBN 0-345-33458-2
* _Messiah_ (1954) ISBN 0-14-118039-0
* _A Thirsty Evil_ (1956) (short stories)
* _Julian_ (1964) ISBN 0-375-72706-X
* _Washington, D.C._ (1967) ISBN 0-316-90257-8
* _Myra Breckinridge_ (1968) ISBN 1125979488
* _Two Sisters_ (1970) ISBN 0-434-82958-7
* _Burr_ (1973) ISBN 0-375-70873-1
* _Myron_ (1974) ISBN 0-586-04300-4
* _1876_ (1976) ISBN 0-375-70872-3
* _Kalki_ (1978) ISBN 0-14-118037-4
* _Creation_ (1981) ISBN 0-349-10475-1
* _Duluth_ (1983) ISBN 0-394-52738-0
* _Lincoln_ (1984) ISBN 0-375-70876-6
* _Empire_ (1987) ISBN 0-375-70874-X
* _Hollywood_ (1990) ISBN 0-375-70875-8
* _Live from Golgotha: the Gospel according to Gore Vidal_ (1992) ISBN 0-14-023119-6
* _The Smithsonian Institution_ (1998) ISBN 0-375-50121-5
* _The Golden Age_ (2000) ISBN 0-375-72481-8
* _Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories_ (2006) (short stories, this is the same collection as _A Thirsty Evil_ (1956), with one previously unpublished short story – _Clouds and Eclipses_ – added)

### 影視劇本

* _Climax!: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde_ (1954) (TV adaptation)
* _The Catered Affair_ (1956)
* _I Accuse!_ (1958)
* _The Scapegoat_ (1959)
* 《賓虛》 (_Ben Hur_，1959) (uncredited)
* _Suddenly, Last Summer_ (1959)
* _The Best Man_ (1964)
* _Is Paris Burning?_ (1966)
* _Last of the Mobile Hot Shots_ (1970)
* _Caligula_ (1979)
* _Dress Gray_ (1986)
* _The Sicilian_ (1987) (uncredited)
* _Billy the Kid_ (1989)
* _Dimenticare Palermo_ (1989)

### 以筆名寫

* _A Star's Progress_ (aka _Cry Shame!_) (1950) as Katherine Everard
* _Thieves Fall Out_ (1953) as Cameron Kay
* _Death Before Bedtime_ (1953) as Edgar Box
* _Death in the Fifth Position_ (1952) as Edgar Box
* _Death Likes It Hot_ (1954) as Edgar Box

### 影視客串及嘉賓

* _Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No_ (1983 documentary film)
* _Bob Roberts_ – as Senator Brickley Paiste (1992 film)
* _With Honors_ – Plays the pessimistic and right-wing Prof. Pitkannan (1994 film)
* _Gattaca_ – Plays Director Josef in science-fiction film (1997)
* _The Education of Gore Vidal_ (2003) Documentary by _Deborah Dickson_, aired in the US on _PBS_
* _Thinking XXX_ (2004 documentary)
* _Da Ali G Show_ (2004 TV)
* _Why We Fight_ (2005 film)
* 《深入深喉》（2005）
* _One Bright Shining Moment_ (2005 film)
* _Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula_ (2005 spoof trailer)
* _Foreign Correspondent_ – with former NSW premier Bob Carr
* _The U.S. Versus John Lennon_ (2006 film)
* Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra concert, August 2, 2007 – Narrated Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait (conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas) from a wheelchair.
* _The Henry Rollins Show_ (2007 TV)
* 《阿森一族》 episode: "Moe'N'a Lisa"
* 《居家男人》 episode: "Mother Tucker"
* Alex Jones radio show (2006)
* _Terrorstorm: Final Cut Special Edition_ (2007)
* _Lateline – ABC Television Australia Interview_ (May 2, 2008)
* _Democracy Now_ – interview: on the Bush Presidency, History and the "United States of Amnesia" （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） (May 14, 2008)
* _The South Bank Show_ (May 18, 2008)
* _Hardtalk – BBC News_ (May 22, 2008)
* _The Andrew Marr Show (May 25, 2008)_
* _The US is not a republic anymore_ (June, 2008)
* _Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11_ (June, 2008)
* _Interview （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） on the BBC's US Presidential Election Coverage with David Dimbleby (04/11/08)_
* "Writer Against the Grain": Gore Vidal in conversation with Jay Parini at the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar (audio, 59:09)
* 《與標馬艾的實時》 (April 10, 2009)
* _Shrink_ (2009 film)

## 參考資料

## 外部連結

* The Gore Vidal Index （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, by Harry Kloman
* 戈爾・維達爾在網際網路電影資料庫（IMDb）上的資料（英文）
* 網際網路百老匯資料庫（IBDB）上戈爾・維達爾的資料（英文）
* 網際網路外百老匯資料庫（IOBDB）上戈爾・維達爾的資料（英文）
* 《紐約書評》上戈爾・維達爾的介紹 （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
* Audio recording: Gore Vidal at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2009: "Writer Against the Grain"