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.
这一本的故事都不陌生,有几个被串成了一部电影,译为《浮世男女》 在谈话中,如果双方对于某个概念的认识程度不同,很有可能无法展开对话 要不是一方给另一方讲课,就是双方误解、争吵、闹僵、一拍两散 就好像许多男人很难把爱挂在嘴边,也许爱情在他心中太过于神圣和沉重 但...
评分卡佛的故事太简单了。小青年们在需要装逼时,往往喜欢使用卡夫卡博尔赫斯卡尔维诺纳博科夫之类的作家,他们用文字织迷宫玩智力游戏,从一个意象上就可以抽出无数条扯不断的支线丝网,每条支线都可以是金闪闪的装逼点。而卡佛的故事太简单了。就是个素面玻璃杯,一眼就能看穿,...
评分长篇或中篇小说中总会透露给人种种时代印记、作者寓意的信息,而当面对一篇篇短小精悍的短篇小说时,好像应该谈论些什么,又好像什么都不用谈论只能支吾着:“你看吧,反正是一本不错的小说。” “隐喻”、“新小说”、“寓言式”这一系列的词显得既强加阐释又像是废话...
评分卡佛这两年在国内很热门,谈论他的文章比他的作品还要多,关于他的写作风格和极简主义我没有什么多余的话要说,关于他和他的编辑之间的故事我也没有什么别出心裁的研究,只来说说我为什么喜欢这本书。 首先,它挺漂亮的,从外观上来看。这很重要,不是吗? 另外,它很好看。...
评分这一本的故事都不陌生,有几个被串成了一部电影,译为《浮世男女》 在谈话中,如果双方对于某个概念的认识程度不同,很有可能无法展开对话 要不是一方给另一方讲课,就是双方误解、争吵、闹僵、一拍两散 就好像许多男人很难把爱挂在嘴边,也许爱情在他心中太过于神圣和沉重 但...
有些很喜欢,个别没看懂,还有一篇实在看不下去。我不喜欢他的题材,也不喜欢他的写法。这大约是我个人的问题。
评分想像卡佛工作一天后伏在厨房的桌上写短篇,窗外可能刮风下雪春夏秋冬,而在这屋子内,卡佛终于有了一刻自己的空间。所以即使没有海明威式的异国经验或作家的咖啡馆,卡佛并不消极。
评分爱情启承转,没有结
评分有些很喜欢,个别没看懂,还有一篇实在看不下去。我不喜欢他的题材,也不喜欢他的写法。这大约是我个人的问题。
评分有些很喜欢,个别没看懂,还有一篇实在看不下去。我不喜欢他的题材,也不喜欢他的写法。这大约是我个人的问题。
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