In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.
Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. The son of a violent alcoholic, he married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit'. A career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to support his wife and family Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John Gardner in 1958 and he saw this as a turning point.
Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called 'dirty realists' or 'K-mart realists'. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seeminlgy insignificant detail. Carver writes with meticulous economy suddenly bringing a life into focus in a similar way to the paintings of Edward Hopper. As well as a master of the short story he was an accomplished poet publishing several highly acclaimed volumes.
After the 'line of demarcation' in Carver's life - 2 June 1977, the day he stopped drinking - his stories become increasingly more redemptive and expansive. Alcohol had eventually shattered his health, his work and his family - his first marriage effectively ending in 1978. He finally married his long-term parter Tess Gallagher (they met ten years earlier at a writers' conference in Dallas) in Reno less than two months before he eventually lost his fight with cancer.
黑洞中的碎片 书名:《当我们在谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》 作者:[美]雷蒙德•卡佛 译者:小二 出版:凤凰传媒/译林2010年1月版 《当我们在谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》是一本薄薄的短篇集,收十七篇小说。有一天清晨我早早醒来,再睡不着,拧开台灯看书。冬天的室内...
评分所有想看卡佛的这本短篇小说集的文艺青年们都应该放弃这个念头——这些小说里没有矫情和装腔作势,只有生活的真实的琐碎和无奈;这些小说不能带来谈资,而只会让人沉默。 短篇小说是生活或世界的一个剖面,就像建筑一样,没有哪一个剖面可以展现本体的全部,但是精心...
评分“在艺术中,简洁并非是预定的目的,但是当一个人接近事物的本质时,总会不可避免地到达这一点。”用这段话来评价我心中的卡佛丝毫不为过。天朝的大多语文老师总是在课堂上歇斯底里地大喊文字要美,但遗憾的是他们心中的美其实是丑陋的。学生作文中充斥着大量浮夸的比喻句...
评分作为一个紧跟时代潮流的八卦爱好者,除了坚持收看网易新闻及评论,定期查阅豆瓣流行之外,我一直按时收看江苏台的《非诚勿扰》,某期,一位文艺青年送心仪女生本小说,我猜就是这本。当时我就愕然了,现在文艺青年装逼都开始秀这本书了,简直比45度仰望天空。悲伤逆流成河还令...
想買一本,可封面都太丑了。
评分我们本来就不具备拥有幸福的能力,天生残缺,接受现实吧!
评分说不出来的被戳中的感觉
评分有些很喜欢,个别没看懂,还有一篇实在看不下去。我不喜欢他的题材,也不喜欢他的写法。这大约是我个人的问题。
评分谢谢小唐~~ vessel vassal~~
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