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.
昏睡2个多小时后,我醒过来,脑子里的第一个念头竟然是:卡佛的小说并没有灰暗到那个程度。 听了一整天的竞聘演讲,任谁都是要昏昏欲睡的。我在现场却怎么也无法睡着。回家吃过饭后,便径直和衣躺倒床上。 我在竞聘者或慷慨激昂或害羞紧张或不知所云的发言中埋头看完《当我们...
評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。...
評分1、《你们为什么不跳个舞》 某种废墟上的舞蹈 2、《取景框》 房子是最后的定格,扔掉毁掉湖面平静的石头。 3、《凉亭》 锁住了,封门了。过客。 剖析龌龊往昔,悲愤荒芜了现在,预言着未来。 当一切过去过不去,谁会在自我折磨中,有重生的勇气。 凉亭,物是人非,那时美好爱...
評分现在谈论卡佛已经逐渐有了一种反讽的意味。我们写的评论比他的小说还要长,我们说的话比他笔下的人物的还要多,我们制造了喧嚣评价他的沉默,我们把他的简约看成了流行和时尚,对他背后大半生遭受的困难视而不见。卡佛在中文语境里受到的追捧已经遮蔽了他的小说与现实世界的关...
評分我不敢说我读懂了卡佛,这只是我的一些阅读感受。 我觉得在2010年的一大幸事,就是结识了雷蒙德卡佛和他的文字。我喜欢翻来覆去地随意阅读这个集子里的每个短篇,仿佛顺着漆黑的山洞向前摸索,越往深越会有新的发现。他不像一般作者带领你展示每一件成品,而仅...
想買一本,可封麵都太醜瞭。
评分以前低估瞭卡佛的小說,這次很慢很慢地讀他的小說,突然有好幾篇就打動瞭我。《Viewfinder》、《Sacks》、《The Bath》等等。從他的小說,你會想到身邊的人,甚至就是你自己。這麼想著,再看自己的生活,處處是小說。但是,從另一麵看,他的小說又缺乏多樣性,更缺乏一種危險的氣息。
评分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...
评分愛情啓承轉,沒有結
评分還是纔疏學淺,沒怎麼讀懂,不過有幾篇氣氛很好
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