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.
《凉亭》是卡佛这本短篇集里给我印象最深的一篇。 这篇里的男主角叫杜安,女主角叫霍莉。 卡佛的好些短篇里的男女主角都是没有名字的。很多时候他们面目模糊,缺失的心理活动也只能靠读者根据他们的语言和动作来补足。于是,他们有没有名字,其实不太重要。我们知道,他们都属...
評分昏睡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...
評分卡佛的故事太简单了。小青年们在需要装逼时,往往喜欢使用卡夫卡博尔赫斯卡尔维诺纳博科夫之类的作家,他们用文字织迷宫玩智力游戏,从一个意象上就可以抽出无数条扯不断的支线丝网,每条支线都可以是金闪闪的装逼点。而卡佛的故事太简单了。就是个素面玻璃杯,一眼就能看穿,...
評分《当我们谈论爱情的时候我们在谈些什么》阅读笔记 --------以下,摘抄------- 你们因爱而发光。但是,你们在相遇之前也曾爱过别人。你们也都曾结过婚,像我们一样。甚至在这之前,你们可能还爱过其他人……如果我们中谁出了什么事——请原谅我这么说——但假如明天我们俩有...
評分这本书是Norman Denzin在他的Advanced Interpretive Method课上推荐的教材之一。Denzin想通过让我们阅读卡佛,来让我们体会只performance writing,就是只描写人物所能看见和感知到的东西而并不写他们的内心活动。这是我们学习Denzin所倡导的performance writing的导引。看过这...
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