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.
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買瞭本原版的卡佛作品集,試著有空做翻譯練習。想有個對照,於是買瞭這本小二翻譯的《當我們談論愛情時我們在談論什麼》。看瞭三篇,可以判斷這本翻譯相當糟糕,想不明白譯林齣版社是怎麼審核就讓這書齣版的。我自己不是什麼高手,但不是高手的人也可以看齣彆人糟糕的地方。這...
評分1、《你們為什麼不跳個舞》 某種廢墟上的舞蹈 2、《取景框》 房子是最後的定格,扔掉毀掉湖麵平靜的石頭。 3、《涼亭》 鎖住瞭,封門瞭。過客。 剖析齷齪往昔,悲憤荒蕪瞭現在,預言著未來。 當一切過去過不去,誰會在自我摺磨中,有重生的勇氣。 涼亭,物是人非,那時美好愛...
評分所有想看卡佛的這本短篇小說集的文藝青年們都應該放棄這個念頭——這些小說裏沒有矯情和裝腔作勢,隻有生活的真實的瑣碎和無奈;這些小說不能帶來談資,而隻會讓人沉默。 短篇小說是生活或世界的一個剖麵,就像建築一樣,沒有哪一個剖麵可以展現本體的全部,但是精心...
評分我們讀到結尾,會疑惑為什麼“我”要那殘疾人攝影師幫“我”把砸石頭的行為照下來? 返迴文本,以時間的順序重新敘述這個故事:敘述者“我”是個老男人目前一個人生活,子女們都離“我”而去,妻子可能也和“我”離婚瞭或者死瞭,但他們把傢裏的東西搬瞭個精光。“我”孤苦伶仃...
評分卡佛的故事太簡單瞭。小青年們在需要裝逼時,往往喜歡使用卡夫卡博爾赫斯卡爾維諾納博科夫之類的作傢,他們用文字織迷宮玩智力遊戲,從一個意象上就可以抽齣無數條扯不斷的支綫絲網,每條支綫都可以是金閃閃的裝逼點。而卡佛的故事太簡單瞭。就是個素麵玻璃杯,一眼就能看穿,...
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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...
評分愛情啓承轉,沒有結
評分英文原版的比中文版的好上很多,因為大概隻有每個字原來的摸樣纔能還原本該有的簡潔。中文會過於縮略,沒有瞭應該有瞭讀音上的繞口。
評分卡佛的小說真是冰山理論的最好代錶。對話的不連貫,人物的一個細微動作,無不暗示著一些更復雜的感情和關係。日常生活的危在旦夕,焦慮,不理解與失敗的男女關係。我認為卡佛找到瞭一種閤適的方法來錶現。最喜歡sacks那篇。
評分All this,all of this love we're talking about,it would just be a memory.
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