Raymond Carver (1938–1988)
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Born in 1938 in an Oregon logging town, Raymond Carver grew up in Yakima, From California he went to Iowa to attend the Iowa Writers Workshop. Soon, however, he returned to California, where he worked at a number of unskilled jobs before obtaining a teaching position. Widely acclaimed as the most mostra altro important short story writer of his generation, Carver writes about the kind of lower-middle-class people whom he knew growing up. His characters are waitresses, mechanics, postmen, high school teachers, factory workers, door-to-door salesmen who lead drab lives because of limited funds. Critics have said that may have the most distinctive vision of the working class. Nominated posthumously for both a National Book Critics Circle Award (1988) and a Pulitzer Prize (1989) for Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories (1988), Carver is one of a handful of writers credited with reviving the short story form. Some have put Carver in the tradition of Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Crane. Carver's stories tend to be brief, with enigmatic endings, although never erupting. Violence is often just below the surface. An air of quiet desperation pervades his stories, as Carver explores the collapse of human relationships in bleak circumstances. In later works, Carver strikes a note of redemption, unheard at the beginning of his career. But for readers who are not attuned to Carver's voice of resignation, these moments may sound sentimental and unconvincing. Carver died of lung cancer in 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Raymond Carver
Why Don't You Dance? {story} 5 copie
One More Thing {story} 4 copie
The Calm {story} 3 copie
Üks hea asi 3 copie
Gazebo {story} 3 copie
סיפורים אחרונים 3 copie
Neighbors {story} 3 copie
Feathers {story} 3 copie
Katedralen 3 copie
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (Loa #195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk about When We Talk about… (2015) 3 copie
Fogos 2 copie
They're Not You Husband {story} 2 copie
Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarets 2 copie
The Student's Wife {story} 2 copie
My Father's Life 2 copie
דבר קטן וטוב 2 copie
Bilmezsiniz Ask Nedir 2 copie
Errand {story} 2 copie
Blackbird Pie {story} 2 copie
Vrij Nederland 2 copie
Boxes {story} 2 copie
Little Things {story} 2 copie
Louise Bourgeois 2 copie
What's in Alaska? {story} 2 copie
A Serious Talk {story} 2 copie
Distance {story} 2 copie
Fever {story} 2 copie
Intimacy {story} 2 copie
Menudo {story} 2 copie
Vitamine (in Cattedrale) 2 copie
Chef's House {story} 2 copie
They're Not Your Husband {story} 2 copie
The Bath {story} 2 copie
Fat {story} 2 copie
Why, Honey? {story} 2 copie
The Student's Wife {story} 2 copie
Collectors {story} 2 copie
Night School 1 copia
Collectors 1 copia
Jerry and Molly and Sam 1 copia
Why, Honey? 1 copia
The Ducks 1 copia
How About This? 1 copia
What is It? 1 copia
Signals 1 copia
Night School {story} — Autore — 1 copia
What's in Alaska? 1 copia
Thánh đường 1 copia
Em làm ơn im đi, được không? 1 copia
The Idea 1 copia
The Father 1 copia
The Race, ONE ACT Play 1 copia
Zimska nesanica-pesme i priče 1 copia
Are You a Doctor? {story} 1 copia
Are You a Doctor and The Father 1 copia
Zimska nesanica 1 copia
The Father {story} 1 copia
Een kleine weldaad 1 copia
Sixty Acres {story} 1 copia
Viewfinder 1 copia
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit 1 copia
Chi ha usato questo letto 1 copia
Viewfinder {story} 1 copia
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit {story} 1 copia
For Tess 1 copia
The Bridle {short story} 1 copia
Sacks {story} 1 copia
Tell the Women We're Going 1 copia
Carver Raymond 1 copia
After the Denim {story} 1 copia
Popular Mechanics {story} 1 copia
Everything Stuck to Him {story} 1 copia
O Que Sabemos do Amor 1 copia
The monkey's tale, One Act Play 1 copia
Kindling 1 copia
Desocupado y más Poemas 1 copia
Peresa 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia
Jerry and Molly and Sam {story} 1 copia
Wovon Wir Reden 1 copia
By Raymond Carver - Catedral (Compactos Anagrama) (Spanish Edition) (Septima) (2001-03-30) [Paperback] (2001) 1 copia
The Ducks {story} 1 copia
One More Thing {story} 1 copia
How About This? {story} 1 copia
Üks hea asi : jutud 1 copia
Careful {story} 1 copia
Cathedral; The Fever 1 copia
What Is It? {story} 1 copia
Signals {story} 1 copia
Stare attenti (in Cattedrale) 1 copia
Il treno (in Cattedrale) 1 copia
Cathedral [short story] 1 copia
La briglia (in Cattedrale) 1 copia
Are These Actual Miles? {story} 1 copia
Little Things {story} 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 919 copie
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Collaboratore — 511 copie
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Collaboratore — 380 copie
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Collaboratore — 345 copie
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Collaboratore — 221 copie
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Collaboratore — 188 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Collaboratore — 147 copie
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Collaboratore — 136 copie
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
Delitti d'autore: il nuovo e il classico del racconto poliziesco contemporaneo: 42 capolavori selezionati dalla… (1993) — Collaboratore — 62 copie
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Carver, Raymond Clevie, Jr.
- Data di nascita
- 1938-05-25
- Data di morte
- 1988-08-02
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Ocean View Cemetery, Port Angeles, Washington, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Clatskanie, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
- Luogo di morte
- Port Angeles, Washington, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer (lung)
- Luogo di residenza
- Clatskanie, Oregon, USA (birth)
Yakima, Washington, USA
Sacramento, California, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA
Austin, Texas, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA (mostra tutto 7)
Port Angeles, Washington, USA (death) - Istruzione
- Chico State University
Humboldt State College, (BA|1963)
University of Iowa
Stanford University (Stegner Fellow) - Attività lavorative
- short-story writer
janitor
essayist
poet
teacher
gas station attendant (mostra tutto 7)
delivery boy - Relazioni
- Carver, Maryann Burk (wife|divorced)
Gallagher, Tess (wife)
Jarman, Mark (student) - Organizzazioni
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1988)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1988)
Utenti
Recensioni
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1970s (1)
E's Reader (1)
Books for Birute (1)
1980s (2)
Read These Too (1)
Stuff from Bard (1)
100 New Classics (1)
Elegant Prose (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 232
- Opere correlate
- 67
- Utenti
- 18,566
- Popolarità
- #1,180
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 296
- ISBN
- 473
- Lingue
- 31
- Preferito da
- 194
Me lo sono divorato questo fine settimana e sento ancora l’intenso sapore di vita sulla lingua. È difficile descrivere cosa si prova nel leggere questi racconti perché è come mettere nero su bianco cosa si prova a essere vivз e a fare delle esperienze in quanto essere umano vivo: sai com’è a un livello istintivo perché sei vivǝ, ma spiegarlo?
È qui che entra in gioco la letteratura – e le arti, in generale: la bellezza di Cattedrale è tutta qui. Riesce a descrivere quello che normalmente non siamo in grado di esprimere a parole e lo fa con quella semplicità che sembra alla portata di chiunque, ma che in realtà è uno dei risultati più difficili da raggiungere per unǝ scrittorǝ.
Non ho altro da aggiungere: è uno di quei libri da leggere e non da raccontare, tanto più che è una lettura relativamente veloce. Buttatevi, che è bello!… (altro)