Shirly Jackson’s The Lottery to review

The Lottery" is a short story written by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker.

               

The story describes a fictional small town in the contemporary United States, which observes an annual rite known as "the lottery", in which a member of the community is selected by chance. The shocking consequence of being selected in the lottery is revealed only at the end.

 

Readers' initial negative response surprised both Jackson and The New Yorker: subscriptions were canceled, and much hate mail was received throughout the summer of its first publication, while the Union of South Africa banned the story.

The story has been dramatized several times and subjected to much sociological and literary analysis, and has been described as one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature.

 

Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.

 

Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York and began contributing to The New Yorker, Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town".

 

 

 

This program was broadcast for the first time on Thursday, and those who are interested can listen to its rebroadcast on Monday, , at 9 pm on the "Story Labyrinth" program. Behnaz Bostandoust has narrated the story of "Lottery" written by Shirley Jackson and  it has analyzed and studied in the expert section with Kayhan Bahmani. Shirley Jackson's biography is narrated by Reza Omrani and  the show is produced by zhaleh Mohammad Ali