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.
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评分1、短篇小說真是不經讀,分分鍾讀完的節奏。2、對“極簡主義”沒研究,好朋友碩士論文作得這個,但粗讀來覺得卡弗的極簡尚不如海明威不成理論的惜字如金有味道。3、想起來傅老師談曼斯菲爾德時說過小作傢與大作傢的區彆,不敢說卡弗究竟算不算大作傢,然而可以知道的是他並不信任自己的讀者,總忍不住想為他們解開自己作品的真諦。
评分能瞧原版盡量瞧原版吧,方塊字譯文版太二瞭。
评分短篇。有些挺有意思的,也有些就是說瞭個故事,看完就忘瞭。
评分在讀卡佛之前很難想象言語之間的空隙蘊藏著這麼大的力量
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