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.
《凉亭》是卡佛这本短篇集里给我印象最深的一篇。 这篇里的男主角叫杜安,女主角叫霍莉。 卡佛的好些短篇里的男女主角都是没有名字的。很多时候他们面目模糊,缺失的心理活动也只能靠读者根据他们的语言和动作来补足。于是,他们有没有名字,其实不太重要。我们知道,他们都属...
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,...
评分作为一个紧跟时代潮流的八卦爱好者,除了坚持收看网易新闻及评论,定期查阅豆瓣流行之外,我一直按时收看江苏台的《非诚勿扰》,某期,一位文艺青年送心仪女生本小说,我猜就是这本。当时我就愕然了,现在文艺青年装逼都开始秀这本书了,简直比45度仰望天空。悲伤逆流成河还令...
评分《当我们谈论爱情的时候我们在谈些什么》阅读笔记 --------以下,摘抄------- 你们因爱而发光。但是,你们在相遇之前也曾爱过别人。你们也都曾结过婚,像我们一样。甚至在这之前,你们可能还爱过其他人……如果我们中谁出了什么事——请原谅我这么说——但假如明天我们俩有...
评分【一】 我一直在研究人类的行为心理学,一项事物能够进行研究,那么说明那是有规律可循的。因为我一直认为,人做任何事情,都是有前因后果的。很多行为看似没有任何征兆,但是它的爆发常常是隐藏在很多琐碎细小的情节中的。 譬如说,一个写出了“黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛,我却用...
爱情启承转,没有结
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...
评分说不出来的被戳中的感觉
评分英文原版的比中文版的好上很多,因为大概只有每个字原来的摸样才能还原本该有的简洁。中文会过于缩略,没有了应该有了读音上的绕口。
评分还是才疏学浅,没怎么读懂,不过有几篇气氛很好
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