The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 6月27日 09時00分

Shirley Jackson’s famous (some would say infamous) short story “The Lottery” was first published, in The New Yorker, 75 years ago this month. The story was launched into a world still recovering from the shock and devastation of a war in which communities had turned on their own members, offering them up for murder—or, in some cases, carrying out the killing themselves. “The Lottery,” in which townspeople draw lots to see who among them will become the victim of a yearly ritual revealed only at the story’s end, perhaps veered too close to a representation of truth.

The response in letters to the editor—hundreds of them, more than any other New Yorker story had inspired—was, for the most part, either confused or outraged. “It may be hard to recapture the surprise and horror of that first reading of ‘The Lottery,’ now that it is considered a classic,” Deborah Treisman, the New Yorker’s fiction editor, writes. “Still, any time I see a group normalizing the act of turning on one of its own, I think of Bill Hutchinson forcing that slip of paper out of his wife’s hand and Mr. Summers saying, ‘All right, folks. Let’s finish quickly.’ ” Revisit the story—or listen to a reading of it, by A. M. Homes—at the link in our bio. Photograph by Garrett Grove.

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