2026年6月26日 星期五

名作家/當代文學巨擘 Joyce Carol Oates ( Wiki詳細點的作品清單) 提醒世人必須警惕「商業利益凌駕一切」的現象。 ( 88 歲 近年對「今日世界」的觀察，犀利且深具人文關懷。她特別點出，在過度追求效率的現代社會中，年輕世代面臨的真實處境，以及科技與極端資本主義對人文連結的嚴重威脅。 她的代表作包括 1999 年描寫 Marilyn Monroe 人生的小說Blonde (2000《金髮夢露》：氣勢恢宏、令人揪心，重新構想了瑪麗蓮夢露的內心世界和公眾形象，探討了身分認同以及好萊塢機器帶來的毀滅性代價。..... )批評 Elon Musk，「很令人好奇，擁有這麼龐大財富的人，卻從來沒有分享過任何他很享受或大多數人們都很珍惜的事物，像是：大自然、家裡的寵物、對電影、音樂或一本書的讚賞（但我懷疑他是否閱讀）、為家人朋友的成就感到驕傲、對逝者表達哀悼、享受運動、支持自己喜愛的球隊、或談論歷史...等等的內容。事實上，他給人的感覺更像是缺乏教育，缺乏文化素養的人。諷刺的是，Twitter 上最貧窮的人，可能都比這位『世界首富』更能體會生活中的美與意義（beauty & meaning）。」拋出這個時代最尖銳的提問：什麼才叫「富有」？

 美國當代文學巨擘 Joyce Carol Oates（喬伊絲·卡蘿爾·奧茨） 近年對「今日世界」的觀察，犀利且深具人文關懷。她特別點出，在過度追求效率的現代社會中，年輕世代面臨的真實處境，以及科技與極端資本主義對人文連結的嚴重威脅。 [1, 2]

1. 人際連結被 AI 與演算法摧毀
她觀察到，求職市場中許多年輕人投遞上千封履歷，收到的卻只有 AI 自動生成的拒絕信，甚至面試也是由 AI 完成。她直言這種「效率與自動化」正在摧毀年輕人，人與人之間的真實連結正在被系統剝奪。 [1]
2. 超級富豪階層主導社會
奧茨對於當前的貧富差距感到擔憂，認為「富有」（wealthy）一詞已不足以形容當今超級富豪擁有的財富。她強調，真正致命的是這些巨額財富所帶來的政治與社會影響力，導致美國社會逐漸被極少數人主導。 [1]
3. 對於人文與自然的呼籲
面對科技鉅子（如馬斯克 Elon Musk 等）主導的世界發展，她提醒世人必須警惕「商業利益凌駕一切」的現象。她擔心，當社會過度以財富和權力定義成功，我們將失去對世界的感受力，包括對一本好書的觸動、對風景的驚喜以及人與人之間的情感關懷。 [1, 2]
您是否對她的哪部經典作品（如《我們這群人》或《狂野之夜》）或特定的社會評論主題感興趣？我們可以進一步探討她如何將這些對「今日世界」的觀察融入其文學創作中。


Heave Raven HR 議題｜這位美國作家批評 Elon Musk，卻意外拋出這個時代最尖銳的提問：什麼才叫「富有」？

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這位是美國作家 Joyce Carol Oates，現年 88 歲的她是當代美國文壇最重要的作家之一。自 60 年代成名以來，她已出版超過 60 部長篇小說、數十本短篇小說集與回憶錄，曾五度入圍普立茲獎，並獲得美國國家圖書獎肯定。


她的代表作包括 1999 年描寫 Marilyn Monroe 人生的小說Blonde (2000《金髮夢露》：氣勢恢宏、令人揪心，重新構想了瑪麗蓮夢露的內心世界和公眾形象，探討了身分認同以及好萊塢機器帶來的毀滅性代價。) 

 A sweeping, harrowing reimagining of the inner life and public persona of Marilyn Monroe, examining identity and the devastating toll of the Hollywood machine. [1, 2]


獲得過國家圖書獎的《Them》，以及大量探討暴力、孤獨、慾望與美國社會矛盾的作品。

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去年 11 月，她在社群平台 X 上發布一則（暗諷某人）的貼文，意外掀起一場橫跨文學圈、媒體圈與科技圈的討論：

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「很令人好奇，擁有這麼龐大財富的人，卻從來沒有分享過任何他很享受或大多數人們都很珍惜的事物，像是：大自然、家裡的寵物、對電影、音樂或一本書的讚賞（但我懷疑他是否閱讀）、為家人朋友的成就感到驕傲、對逝者表達哀悼、享受運動、支持自己喜愛的球隊、或談論歷史...等等的內容。事實上，他給人的感覺更像是缺乏教育，缺乏文化素養的人。諷刺的是，Twitter 上最貧窮的人，可能都比這位『世界首富』更能體會生活中的美與意義（beauty & meaning）。」

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當然，雖沒說「世界首富」是誰，但大家都知道她指的是 Elon Musk，隨後她又接連發文評論對方的政治立場與家庭關係，甚至稱讚與父親疏遠的女兒 Vivian Wilson，並補上一句：「正常的父母會為她感到驕傲。」此舉也引來馬斯克罕見回應。

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這看似是一場「87 歲小說家大戰世界首富」的口水戰，但實際上， Joyce Carol Oates 也想藉此向世人提問：什麼才是人真正擁有的事物？

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儘管 Joyce Carol Oates 常被視爲女性作家或社會批判作家，但她始終認為自己更像觀察者，回顧自己走上寫作之路的數十年，她說：「我一直都是個作家，而且非常內向。」比起告訴讀者應該相信什麼，她更在意每個人如何經歷自己的人生，以及那些經常被忽略的情感（失落、孤獨、渴望、愛與悲傷）如何一步步塑造一個人。然而，與許多公開參與政治辯論的知識分子不同，Oates 始終拒絕將自己定位為社運運動家或意識形態的代言人。

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她近日與《衛報》的對談，也分享了對「當前世界」的看法。談到 AI 時，她提到許多年輕人投出上千封履歷，收到的卻只是 AI 自動生成的拒絕信，甚至面試過程也由 AI 完成，「這正在摧毀這些年輕人。」她直言，人與人之間的真實連結正在被效率與自動化逐漸取代。

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當提到日益擴大的貧富差距，Joyce Carol Oates 直言：「『富有』（wealthy）這個詞，已經不足以形容這些人所擁有的財富。」她認為，美國正逐漸被極少數超級富豪所主導，而真正令人擔憂的，是財富所帶來的影響力。

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回頭再看那則讓 Elon Musk 親自回應的貼文，或許便能理解它為何引起如此大的共鳴。畢竟，世界首富有沒有讀書，不是她真正在乎的事。當一個社會越來越偏好以財富、權力與影響力定義成功時，我們是否也正失去對世界的感受力 —— 為眼前的風景感到驚喜、被一本好書觸動、為朋友的成就喝采、為他人的離去悲慟，以及持續對世界保持好奇。


Joyce Carol Oates | Penguin Random House
Joyce Carol Oates is a prolific American author who has published over 60 novels, as well as dozens of short story collections, plays, and nonfiction works. Her writing is celebrated for exploring themes of violence, American society, and dark psychological realities. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Some of her most renowned and highly recommended books include:
Must-Read Novels
  • Blonde (2000): A sweeping, harrowing reimagining of the inner life and public persona of Marilyn Monroe, examining identity and the devastating toll of the Hollywood machine. [1, 2]
  • We Were the Mulvaneys (1996): An emotional family epic that tracks the sudden unraveling and gradual redemption of a seemingly perfect American family after a tragic event. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Them (1969): Winner of the National Book Award, this gritty piece of her Wonderland Quartet follows a struggling Detroit family navigating hardship, violence, and the American dream during the 1967 riots. [1, 2, 3]
  • The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007): A powerful, epic story of an immigrant's daughter who survives a tragic family history to forge her own identity. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Short Story Collections
  • Zero-Sum (2024): A collection of stories probing unsettling depths of human nature, erotic obsession, and shifting identities.
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (various): A brilliant compilation featuring her most famous short story of the same name, which explores a young girl's unsettling encounter with a mysterious man. [1, 2, 3]
Notable Later Works
  • Butcher (2024): A chilling historical-fiction thriller that explores 19th-century psychiatric and gynecological practices through the lens of a controversial doctor. [1]
  • Fox (2023): A tense, psychological dive into power, dark academia, and institutional failures surrounding a charismatic but predatory teacher. [1]
For a complete look at her massive bibliography and to read reviews from other readers, you can browse the Goodreads Joyce Carol Oates List or find her works available at Penguin Random House.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of the published work of the American writer Joyce Carol Oates.

Oates at the Miami Book Fair International 2014

Novels

The Wonderland Quartet

The Gothic Saga

As Rosamond Smith

  • Lives of the Twins (1987) (U.K. title: Kindred Passions)
  • Soul/Mate (1989)
  • Nemesis (1990)
  • Snake Eyes (1992)
  • You Can't Catch Me (1995)
  • Double Delight (1997)
  • Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999)
  • The Barrens (2001)

As Lauren Kelly

  • Take Me, Take Me With You (2004)
  • The Stolen Heart (2005)
  • Blood Mask (2006)

Short fiction

Main article: Joyce Carol Oates short fiction bibliography

Collections

Novellas

Young adult fiction

Children's fiction

  • Come Meet Muffin! (1998)
  • Where Is Little Reynard? (2003)
  • Naughty Chérie! (2008)
  • The New Kitten (2019)

Drama

Full-length plays

  • Sunday Dinner (1965)
  • The Sweet Enemy (1970)
  • Miracle Play (1973)
  • Black (1989)
  • In Darkest America (1990)
    • The Eclipse
    • Tone Clusters
  • I Stand Before You Naked (1990)
  • American Holiday (1990)
  • The Secret Mirror (1991)
  • Bad Girls
  • Black Water (1997)
  • The Passion of Henry David Thoreau

One-act plays

  • Ontological Proof of My Existence (1970)
  • The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1979)
  • How Do You Like Your Meat? (1990)
  • Friday Night (1990)
  • Greensleeves (1991)
  • The Key (1991)
  • The Ballad of Love Canal (1991)
  • Under/Ground (1991)
  • Here I am
  • Duet
  • Good to know you
  • Poor Bibi
  • Here She Is! (1995)
  • Negative (1995)
  • Homesick (1995)
  • The Adoption (1996)
  • No next of kin
  • When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Love Me (1998)
  • Dr. Magic (2002)
  • Wild Nights! (2009)
  • Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish 1906 (2009)

Collections

  • Three Plays (1980)
  • Twelve Plays (1991)
  • The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995)
  • New Plays (1998)
  • Dr. Magic: Six One Act Plays (2004)
  • Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish 1906: Two One Act Plays (2009)

Essays and memoirs

  • Oates, Joyce Carol (1972). The edge of impossibility: tragic forms in literature. New York: Vanguard Press. ISBN 9780814906750.
  • The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence (1973)
  • New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature (1974)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde’s Parable of the Fall (1980)
  • Contraries: Essays (1981)
  • The Profane Art: Essays & Reviews (1983)
  • On Boxing (with photographs by John Ranard) (1987, revised edition 2006)
  • (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)
  • George Bellows: American Artist (1995)
  • They Just Went Away (1995)
  • Where I've Been, And Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (1999)
  • "A Fragmented Diary in a Fragmented Time" (2003) published in Narrative Magazine
  • The Faith of A Writer: Life, Craft, Art (2003)
  • Uncensored: Views & (Re)views (2005)
  • The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007)
  • In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters (2009)
  • In Rough Country (2010)
  • A Widow's Story: A Memoir (2011)
  • Joyce Carol Oates creates Evangeline Fife, who interviews Robert Frost: Lovely, Dark, Deep (2013) published in "Dead Interviews" [3]
  • — (June 10–17, 2013). "After Black Rock". True Crimes. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 17. pp. 96–97.
  • The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age (2015)
  • "Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Time" (2015) published in Narrative Magazine
  • "The Lost Sister: An Elegy" (2015) published in Narrative Magazine
  • Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life (2016)

Poetry

Collections

  • Women in Love and Other Poems (1968)
  • Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969)
  • Love and Its Derangements (1970)
  • Angel Fire (1973)
  • Dreaming America (1973)
  • The Fabulous Beasts (1975)
  • Season of Peril (1977)
  • Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978)
  • Invisible Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1970–1982 (1982)
  • The Time Traveler (1989)
  • Tenderness (1996)
  • American Melancholy: Poems (2021)

List of poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Too young to marry but not too young to die
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