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.
昏睡2个多小时后,我醒过来,脑子里的第一个念头竟然是:卡佛的小说并没有灰暗到那个程度。 听了一整天的竞聘演讲,任谁都是要昏昏欲睡的。我在现场却怎么也无法睡着。回家吃过饭后,便径直和衣躺倒床上。 我在竞聘者或慷慨激昂或害羞紧张或不知所云的发言中埋头看完《当我们...
评分买了本原版的卡佛作品集,试着有空做翻译练习。想有个对照,于是买了这本小二翻译的《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》。看了三篇,可以判断这本翻译相当糟糕,想不明白译林出版社是怎么审核就让这书出版的。我自己不是什么高手,但不是高手的人也可以看出别人糟糕的地方。这...
评分卡佛这两年在国内很热门,谈论他的文章比他的作品还要多,关于他的写作风格和极简主义我没有什么多余的话要说,关于他和他的编辑之间的故事我也没有什么别出心裁的研究,只来说说我为什么喜欢这本书。 首先,它挺漂亮的,从外观上来看。这很重要,不是吗? 另外,它很好看。...
评分【一】 我一直在研究人类的行为心理学,一项事物能够进行研究,那么说明那是有规律可循的。因为我一直认为,人做任何事情,都是有前因后果的。很多行为看似没有任何征兆,但是它的爆发常常是隐藏在很多琐碎细小的情节中的。 譬如说,一个写出了“黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛,我却用...
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...
“Raymond Carver's America is helpless, clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories." "Carver not only enchants, he convinces."
评分I thought for a minute of the world inside the stories, and then I did not have any more thoughts except I had to hurry up and sleep...
评分谢谢小唐~~ vessel vassal~~
评分只读过封面故事,在美国文学史里读到的?记不清了。总之是一个莫名其妙的故事。
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。
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