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"The Enormous Radio" is Cheever's earliest and most brilliant version of the "fall" from innocence into experience, from blissful ignorance into the horror of self-knowledge, and from a comfortable life of illusion into the unbearable reality.
She was confounded by the number of dials and switches on the instrument panel, and she studied them thoroughly before she put the plug into a wall socket and turned the radio on. The dials flooded with a malevolent green light, and in the distance she heard the music of a piano quartet.
23 de may. de 2021 · A short story by John Cheever about a radio that eavesdrops on the private conversations of neighbors. The story explores the themes of hypocrisy, betrayal, and disillusionment in a realistic and ironic way.
A magic realist story about a couple who buy a radio that can eavesdrop on their neighbours’ conversations. The radio reveals their hypocrisy and secrets, and exposes their own flaws and insecurities.
A short story by John Cheever about a couple who buy a radio that broadcasts their neighbors' sounds and secrets. The radio reveals the contrast between their false appearance of happiness and their true discontent, and the inescapability of worldly knowledge.
19 de jul. de 2022 · A married couple's new radio tunes into the private lives of everybody else in their New York City apartment building
La monstruosa radio (1947) (“The Enormous Radio”) Originalmente publicado en The New Yorker (17 de mayo de 1947, pág. 28); The Enormous Radio, and Other Stories (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953, 237 pgs.)
