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Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s.

Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father, a sawmill worker from Arkansas, was a violent alcoholic. Carver's mother worked on and off as a waitress and a retail clerk. His one brother, James Franklin Carver, was born in 1943.

Carver was educated at local schools in Yakima, Washington. In his spare time he read mostly novels by Mickey Spillane or publications such as Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and hunted and fished with friends and family. After graduating from Yakima High School in 1956, Carver worked with his father at a sawmill in California. In June 1957, aged 19, he married 16-year-old Maryann Burk. She had just graduated from a private Episcopal school for girls. Their daughter, Christine La Rae, was born in December 1957. When their second child, a boy named Vance Lindsay, was born the next year, Carver was 20. Carver supported his family by working as a janitor, sawmill laborer, delivery man, and library assistant. During their marriage, Maryann worked as a waitress, salesperson, administrative assistant, and teacher.

Carver became interested in writing in California, where he had moved with his family because his mother-in-law had a home in Paradise. Carver attended a creative-writing course taught by the novelist John Gardner, who became a mentor and had a major influence on Carver's life and career. Carver continued his studies first at Chico State University and then at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California, where he studied with Richard Cortez Day and received his B.A. in 1963. During this period he was first published and served as editor for Toyon, the university literary magazine, in which he included several of his own pieces under pseudonyms. He later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, for one year. Maryann graduated from San Jose State College in 1970 and taught English at Los Altos High School until 1977.

In the mid-1960s Carver and his family lived in Sacramento, where he worked as a night custodian at Mercy Hospital. He sat in on classes at what was then Sacramento State College including workshops with poet Dennis Schmitz. Carver's first book of poems, Near Klamath, was published in 1968 by the English Club of Sacramento State College.

With his appearance in the respected "Foley collection," the impending publication of Near Klamath, and the death of his father, 1967 was a landmark year. That was also the year that he moved his family to Palo Alto, California, so that he could take a job as a textbook editor for Science Research Associates. He worked there until he was fired in 1970 for his inappropriate writing style. In the 1970s and 1980s as his writing career began to take off, Carver taught for several years at universities throughout the United States.

During the years of working in different jobs, rearing children, and trying to write, Carver started to drink heavily and stated that alcohol became such a problem in his life that he more or less gave up and took to full-time drinking. In the fall semester of 1973, Carver was a teacher in the Iowa Writers' Workshop with John Cheever, but Carver stated that they did less teaching than drinking and almost no writing. The next year, after leaving Iowa City, Cheever went to a treatment center to attempt to overcome his alcoholism, but Carver continued drinking for three years. After being hospitalized three times (between June 1976 and February or March 1977), Carver began his 'second life' and stopped drinking on June 2, 1977, with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Carver met the poet Tess Gallagher at a writers' conference in Dallas, Texas in 1978. From May until August, 1979, Carver and Gallagher lived in a borrowed cabin near Port Angeles, in western Washington state. In September, the two moved to Syracuse, where Gallagher had been appointed the Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University; Carver taught as a professor in the English department. He and Gallagher jointly purchased a house in Syracuse, at 832 Maryland Avenue. In ensuing years, the house became so popular that the couple had to hang a sign outside that read "Writers At Work" in order to be left alone. In 1982, Carver and first wife, Maryann, were divorced.[1] He married Gallagher in 1988 in Reno, Nevada. Six weeks later, on August 2, 1988, Carver died in Port Angeles, Washington, from lung cancer at the age of 50. In the same year, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Raymond Carver is buried at Ocean View Cemetery in Port Angeles, WA.

出版者:Vintage
作者:Raymond Carver
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页数:224
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出版时间:2003-09-04
价格:USD 14.45
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780099449850
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"Cathedral" is itself a short story written by Carver. It is about a man whose wife is old friends with a blind man. The story shows the husband/narrator's distaste for the blind man who is coming to visit him and his wife for a few days. At times it seems that the man is jealous of the blind man for being so close to his wife; at other times it seems that the husband is disgusted by the man's blindness. In the end they bond in a way through the comunication they share about what a cathedral looks like.

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所谓并置,实际上是一种错置,完全私人、主观,来自胡思乱想的一下子。事实上,不管文字、音乐还是绘画或电影,好东西有一个共同点,它一定是有灵性的,是活着的,可以在每一个与之相遇的人心里找到沃土,进而生根开花。比如个人一直觉得博纳尔的画和杜拉斯的文字之间是相通的...  

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村上春树有本短篇小说集《旋转木马鏖战记》,在序言里他说,“越是倾听别人的讲述,越是通过其讲述来窥看每个人的生态,我们就越是为某种无奈所俘获。沉渣即是这无奈之感,其本质便是我们哪里也到达不了。我们固然拥有可以将我们自身嵌入其中的我们的人生这一运行系统,但...  

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只读过Cathedral一篇,比起当我们《谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》中的短篇,这篇小说已经多了不少温存,甚好,Spotify 正在streams一首歌叫to build a home,十分应景。其实看过这么多篇卡佛的小说,印象最深的就是一种亲密关系内的永恒冲突,亲密,是极其危险的

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只读过Cathedral一篇,比起当我们《谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》中的短篇,这篇小说已经多了不少温存,甚好,Spotify 正在streams一首歌叫to build a home,十分应景。其实看过这么多篇卡佛的小说,印象最深的就是一种亲密关系内的永恒冲突,亲密,是极其危险的

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"A Small, Good Thing," "Cathedral" 尤佳。"The Compartment"和"The Train"一起比对看很有意思。"Fever"较薄弱但有难得的温情,结尾说不准该算cliché还是truism. “Feathers”属于生活中诡异的不可言说的推动力。“Chef's House”难得女性视角,不过透出的爷们气质还是暴露了。“The Bridle”和"Vitamins"也弱些。"Where I'm calling from"叙事穿插,crack-down的过程,徘徊在恢复与重陷泥沼的挣扎。"Careful"前夫妻关系值得玩味。"Preservation"结尾没有很读懂orz(好好的书评就成了你的流水账= =

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最喜欢的一本卡佛。2017的头四天开着itunes听了一万遍david means读的chef's house。大概我的人生也就是千辛万苦,一场徒劳。新的一年要更严肃地活着,徒劳地克服时代。

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比较喜欢里面的Preservation和Feather,风格太强烈,如果连着读下来如同吃斋。这本书可以出现在毕业论文的参考书目里了。

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