Raymond Carver Livres

Douze nouvelles de Raymond Carver, douze variations sur la condition humaine.

"J'ai vu pas mal de choses dans ma vie. Une fois j'allais chez ma mère pour y passer quelques nuits. En arrivant sur le seuil, j'ai jeté un coup d'oeil et je l'ai vue, assise sur le canapé, en train d'embrasser un homme. C'était l'été. La porte était ouverte. La télé était allumée. Voilà une des choses que j'ai vues."

"Je suivis son regard... À côté du vase, sur le napperon, un moulage de dents, les dents les plus tordues et irrégulières que j'aie jamais vues de ma vie. Il n'y avait pas de lèvres sur ce truc affreux, pas de mâchoires, juste des dents en plâtre plantées dans quelque chose qui ressemblait à d'épaisses gencives jaunâtres... Ca, c'est les dents d'Olla avant qu'on lui mette des appareils, dit Bud à Fran... Ma tête à couper que je ne sais pas pourquoi elle les garde." Des dents sur le poste de télévision, un bébé "tellement moche que je ne trouvais rien à dire", des gens très ordinaires, des vies simples et, miracle de l'écriture, le monde s'auréole d'une étrangeté presque métaphysique. Petites joies désolantes, infinie tristesse... Douze nouvelles de Raymond Carver ; douze univers clos, douze fascinantes variations sur la condition humaine.

Raymond Carver's writing delves into the lives of individuals facing poverty and deprivation, marked by a haunting minimalism and subtle violence. His earlier works exemplify "dirty realism," characterized by their starkness and ambiguity. However, in later collections like Cathedral, Carver showcases a broader emotional range, revealing deeper connections with his characters and adopting a more expansive narrative style reminiscent of Chekhov. This evolution highlights his ability to blend detachment with empathy, enriching the landscape of American fiction.

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Cathedral

The final story collection from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier volumes. • “Among the masterpieces of American fiction." —The New York Times Book Review By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I’m Calling From, his last collection, includes seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver’s life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.

This prodigiously rich collection of poems suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America’s finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy. This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver’s five previous books, from Fires to the posthumously published No Heroics, Please.  It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver’s life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver’s widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.

A collection of short short stories about dirt farmers, salesmen, assembly-line workers, unemployed and bankrupt.

This fascinating collection contains the original, unedited stories Raymond Carver wrote for what became - at the hands of his editor Gordon Lish - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver, author of 'Where I'm Calling From', is widely considered one of the great short story writers of our time. A New Path to the Waterfall was Carver's last book, and shows a writer telling the truth as best as he knows how in the time left to him. The sixty-odd poems in this collection are linked by Carver with selections from other writers, most notably Chekhov, whose work was an inspiration and a guide, and by the cumulative force of the life and death questions he poses in them. As Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet guided countless readers discovering their true love and work, Carver's book will guide those in the process of celebrating a limited life and mourning the inescapable end of it. A New Path to the Waterfall is an essential book for those who admire Carver's work, and testament to the transcendent strength of the human spirit. In her introductory essay, Tess Gallagher, Carver's companion and fellow writer, lays out the circumstances of their last years together with matter-of-fact grace.