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.
"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.
买这本小说纯粹因为卡佛最近被夸成了一朵花,想见识下什么是大师,完全是抱着学习的目的,结果有些失望。 如果是想读一个精彩的故事,千万不要买此书。所有的故事既没有烘托也没有高潮,所有的故事就是一堆麻烦,读者不断被主人公拉进泥沼中。你以为苦难快结束了,结果发现故事...
評分目录 ———献给雷蒙德·卡佛 by华夏 最后一片《羽毛》 并不属于孔雀 《瑟夫的房子》也不属于我们 是谁忘了把爱情放进冰箱 生活不过是一摊死水 脱掉《保鲜》膜的妻子 在午夜登上《火车》 也许是《好事一小件》 《软座包厢》如此空旷 《维他命》救不了她的失落 渔夫...
評分 評分目录 ———献给雷蒙德·卡佛 by华夏 最后一片《羽毛》 并不属于孔雀 《瑟夫的房子》也不属于我们 是谁忘了把爱情放进冰箱 生活不过是一摊死水 脱掉《保鲜》膜的妻子 在午夜登上《火车》 也许是《好事一小件》 《软座包厢》如此空旷 《维他命》救不了她的失落 渔夫...
最喜歡的一本卡佛。2017的頭四天開著itunes聽瞭一萬遍david means讀的chef's house。大概我的人生也就是韆辛萬苦,一場徒勞。新的一年要更嚴肅地活著,徒勞地剋服時代。
评分what is most impressive is the shift of itimateness fom the blind man with "my" wife to the man with "me". suddenly "my" wife become the outsider. amazing
评分我纍各區。。。我讀完的反應。。沒瞭。
评分最喜歡的一本卡佛。2017的頭四天開著itunes聽瞭一萬遍david means讀的chef's house。大概我的人生也就是韆辛萬苦,一場徒勞。新的一年要更嚴肅地活著,徒勞地剋服時代。
评分what is most impressive is the shift of itimateness fom the blind man with "my" wife to the man with "me". suddenly "my" wife become the outsider. amazing
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