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Marriages and Infidelities (1972) is the fourth volume of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. In this collection, Oates explores the relationship between love and betrayal. Joyce Carol Oates's fourth collection of short stories is remarkable because of two aspects. First of all there are some stories in it whose titles remind the reader of short stories or novellas by earlier writers because they are identical: "The Metamorphosis" hints at Franz Kafka's short story "Die Verwandlung," "The Lady with the Pet Dog" at Anton Chekhov's novella "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen," "The Turn of the Screw" at Henry James's famous novella of the same title, and "The Dead" at the last short story of James Joyce's Dubliners. In an interview Oates herself has given the reasons for this: "These stories are mean

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  • Marriages and Infidelities (1972) is the fourth volume of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. In this collection, Oates explores the relationship between love and betrayal. Joyce Carol Oates's fourth collection of short stories is remarkable because of two aspects. First of all there are some stories in it whose titles remind the reader of short stories or novellas by earlier writers because they are identical: "The Metamorphosis" hints at Franz Kafka's short story "Die Verwandlung," "The Lady with the Pet Dog" at Anton Chekhov's novella "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen," "The Turn of the Screw" at Henry James's famous novella of the same title, and "The Dead" at the last short story of James Joyce's Dubliners. In an interview Oates herself has given the reasons for this: "These stories are meant to be autonomous stories, yet they are also testaments of my love and extreme devotion to these other writers; I imagine a kind of spiritual 'marriage' between myself and them ...." But the fact that she pays tribute to writers she admires is not the only thing one has to be aware of in this volume. The title suggests stories about marriages, about the traditional form of man-woman relationship and about its problems. Yet she also uses the term "marriage" as a metaphor, as she herself has stated: I believe we achieve our salvation, or our ruin, by the marriages we contract. I conceived of a book of marriages. Some are conventional marriages of men and women, others are marriages in another sense - with a phase of art, with something that transcends the limitations of the ego. But because people are mortal, most of the marriages they go into are mistakes of some kind, misreadings of themselves. I thought by putting together a sequence of marriages, one might see how this one succeeds and that one fails. And how this one leads to some meaning beyond the self. (en)
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  • Marriages and Infidelities (1972) is the fourth volume of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. In this collection, Oates explores the relationship between love and betrayal. Joyce Carol Oates's fourth collection of short stories is remarkable because of two aspects. First of all there are some stories in it whose titles remind the reader of short stories or novellas by earlier writers because they are identical: "The Metamorphosis" hints at Franz Kafka's short story "Die Verwandlung," "The Lady with the Pet Dog" at Anton Chekhov's novella "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen," "The Turn of the Screw" at Henry James's famous novella of the same title, and "The Dead" at the last short story of James Joyce's Dubliners. In an interview Oates herself has given the reasons for this: "These stories are mean (en)
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