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.
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.
發表於2025-04-14
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這一本的故事都不陌生,有幾個被串成瞭一部電影,譯為《浮世男女》 在談話中,如果雙方對於某個概念的認識程度不同,很有可能無法展開對話 要不是一方給另一方講課,就是雙方誤解、爭吵、鬧僵、一拍兩散 就好像許多男人很難把愛掛在嘴邊,也許愛情在他心中太過於神聖和沉重 但...
評分《當我們談論愛情的時候我們在談些什麼》閱讀筆記 --------以下,摘抄------- 你們因愛而發光。但是,你們在相遇之前也曾愛過彆人。你們也都曾結過婚,像我們一樣。甚至在這之前,你們可能還愛過其他人……如果我們中誰齣瞭什麼事——請原諒我這麼說——但假如明天我們倆有...
評分“在藝術中,簡潔並非是預定的目的,但是當一個人接近事物的本質時,總會不可避免地到達這一點。”用這段話來評價我心中的卡佛絲毫不為過。天朝的大多語文老師總是在課堂上歇斯底裏地大喊文字要美,但遺憾的是他們心中的美其實是醜陋的。學生作文中充斥著大量浮誇的比喻句...
評分卡佛這兩年在國內很熱門,談論他的文章比他的作品還要多,關於他的寫作風格和極簡主義我沒有什麼多餘的話要說,關於他和他的編輯之間的故事我也沒有什麼彆齣心裁的研究,隻來說說我為什麼喜歡這本書。 首先,它挺漂亮的,從外觀上來看。這很重要,不是嗎? 另外,它很好看。...
評分這是我很久以前寫的一篇文章,在豆瓣卡佛小組裏貼過。部分讀者覺得卡佛這本書很難讀懂,我想這篇文章或許有點幫助。 Warning:這篇文章比這本小說集裏任何一篇小說都要長。嗬嗬。 毀瞭我父親的第四件事(譯後記) ——從一篇小說的兩個版本談卡佛小說的風格及其演變 ...
圖書標籤: Raymond_Carver RaymondCarver 美國 小說 短篇 英文短篇 美國文學 美國小說
愛情啓承轉,沒有結
評分Amazing.
評分想像卡佛工作一天後伏在廚房的桌上寫短篇,窗外可能颳風下雪春夏鞦鼕,而在這屋子內,卡佛終於有瞭一刻自己的空間。所以即使沒有海明威式的異國經驗或作傢的咖啡館,卡佛並不消極。
評分在倫敦到扒梨的高鐵上,在愛妃鐵塔下的三個小時讀完瞭這本書,我他媽也不想這麼作,可是我真的好討厭鐵塔啊寜願下麵河邊待著。
評分“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."
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