出版社: Vintage
出版年: 2003-09-04
页数: 224
定价: USD 14.45
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099449850
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"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 disgus...
"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.
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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 sawmi...
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.
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在20世纪的美国文坛上,雷蒙德·卡佛是极具特色的一位,如果只看他的人生经历,很难想到他和作家两个字有缘。 卡佛出生于一个贫穷的木工家庭,这样的成长环境决定了他不能像大部分作家一样从小就受到良好的文化熏陶。 潦倒的家庭环境也让他早早告别了自己的的学校生涯,在高中... (展开)论坛 · · · · · ·
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0 有用 公園仔 2008-06-07 15:22:06
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0 有用 鸢都依然 2014-02-23 23:14:12
The best of Raymond Carver. Book from Nick.
0 有用 Flora 2011-03-22 17:30:16
读着过瘾,比肖铁的译本好看多了!
0 有用 carried 2013-10-09 21:45:19
在冰冷和绝望的气息中透出一丝温暖给你。
0 有用 沙发鱼 2011-10-19 22:28:02
比较喜欢里面的Preservation和Feather,风格太强烈,如果连着读下来如同吃斋。这本书可以出现在毕业论文的参考书目里了。
0 有用 单向道 2023-09-20 06:28:41 美国
说实话没怎么get到。语言很简单,场景很生动,但也许是我阅历不够,很难get到其中人物的内心变化。唯一触动的是fever,那个别扭的男人的内心我居然感同身受。
1 有用 拉维克 2022-06-24 15:05:35
《一件小而好的事》可以说是关于"吃",《小心》是关于"听",《大教堂》是关于"看",《发烧》也是身体出状况:吾所以有大患者,为吾有身。这本书已经到了卡佛自创的宗教性质的境界,《羽毛》里的同事,《小而好的事》里的面包师,《发烧》里的老保姆,《大教堂》里的盲人朋友,他们就是"大教堂"里的祭司先知,是时间淬炼出来的智慧,善良与韧性。开篇的《羽毛》其实暗含了一个"天堂"的概念:强调了好几次孔雀是"天堂之鸟... 《一件小而好的事》可以说是关于"吃",《小心》是关于"听",《大教堂》是关于"看",《发烧》也是身体出状况:吾所以有大患者,为吾有身。这本书已经到了卡佛自创的宗教性质的境界,《羽毛》里的同事,《小而好的事》里的面包师,《发烧》里的老保姆,《大教堂》里的盲人朋友,他们就是"大教堂"里的祭司先知,是时间淬炼出来的智慧,善良与韧性。开篇的《羽毛》其实暗含了一个"天堂"的概念:强调了好几次孔雀是"天堂之鸟",最后"我"和女友拿着几片孔雀羽毛离开(只是没想到甲之熊掌乙之砒霜),结尾的故事是《大教堂》("画些人物上去,一个没人的大教堂叫什么大教堂呢?") 卡佛的世界是像歌词里唱的"人,是需要人的人",即使只是无能为助的普通人,也有"且为王孙立斯须"的同情和理解。 (展开)
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0 有用 归舟仔 2021-01-29 11:27:17
simple, powerful, eloquent
0 有用 Süßwasser💧 2020-12-29 12:06:12
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