Raymond Carver Books

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 Where I’m Calling From, his last collection, includes seven new works previously unpublished in book form.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.

Among the 110 contributors: Raymond Carver, Amiri Baraka, Jean Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Isabella Gardner, Ted Kooser, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley . . . Selections made from nominations by the editors of independent noncommercial presses and magazines, spanning the period from 1965 to 1977. Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press covers 1978 to 1983. Editor's Choice III covers 1984 to 1990.

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.

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of “one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books). “A writer of astonishing compassion and honesty … His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart.” —The Washington Post Book World A remarkable collection that includes the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.” —The Washington Post Book World

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 (1939 - 1988) es uno de los más grandes escritores norteamericanos de relatos breves, pero no menos notable es su poesía. Bajo una luz marina fue la primera colección de poemas suyos seleccionada por el propio Carver. Incluye poemas de sus libros anteriores aparecidos en ediciones de muy escasa difusión. En ello, demuestra su inigualable talento para convertir a gente y situaciones vulgares y corriente, en algo extraordinario, extraño e indeleble. Y siempre utilizando unas estrategias literarias de apariencia elemental, pero que potencian una visión despojada, donde las personas, las cosas, las sensaciones, quedan en suspenso, sugeridas, levemente apuntadas, aunque se graben permanentemente en la sensibilidad de los lectores. Una constante celebración del amor, la amistad y la sencillez de la vida cotidiana de unos seres de vidas marginales y frecuentemente desesperadas. Traducción de Mariano Antolín Rato. 3ª edición

Contains four essays, including a memoir of the author's father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and an essay about the influences on his writing life; fifty poems; and, seven stories.

From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books). Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman.

In these stories, some only three or four pages long, plots are set in motion with astonishing speed, narration is colloquial and laconic, dialogue reveals an ear for the way people speak, and every story packs a devastating emotional charge

The last collection of stories written by Raymond Carver before his death.

This stunning collection of 28 stories brings readers a literary portrait of the American family from 1894 to today. A collection of works that captures the essence of American families from living together and apart to loving and letting go.Regret / Kate Chopin --The lombardy poplar / Mary Wilkins Freeman --The widow's might / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser --The sorrows of gin / John Cheever --I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --Simple and Counsin F.D. Roosevelt Brown / Langston Hughes --The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines --My Coney Island uncle / Harvey Swados --My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud --Final dwarf / Henry Roth --And Sarah laughed / Joanne Greenberg --Wedding day / Roberta Silman --The legacy of Beau Kremel / Stephen Wolf --Kiswana Brown / Gloria Naylor --Tuesdays / Mary Hedin --Afloat / Ann Beattie --Winterblossom garden / David Low --Old things / Bobbie Ann Mason --Starlight / Marian Thurm --The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow --The rich brother / Tobias Wolff --My legacy / Don Zacharia --Violation / Mary Gordon --Appropriate affect / Sue Miller --What I did for love / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --Still of some use / John Updike --Elephant / Raymond Carver

When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. schovat popis

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

All'inizio del 1988, poco prima di morire, Raymond Carver ha riunito una cinquantina di poesie scritte soprattutto nell'ultimo periodo, segnato dalla consapevolezza della malattia fatale che l'aveva colpito. Il risultato è una dichiarazione d'amore per la vita e per il lavoro di scrittore, e insieme uno straordinario documento che trascende, pur esaltandola, l'autobiografia poetica. La nuova edizione di questa raccolta è arricchita da un saggio di Salman Rushdie.

Carver thematisiert in seinen ersten und letzten Geschichten die Verlierer der amerikanischen Gesellschaft und deren kleine Tragödien. Mit meisterhafter Kürze und Präzision schildert er das Leben der unteren Mittelschicht und zeigt sich als Meister der psychologischen Erzählung, inspiriert von Faulkner und Tschechow.

En 1990 Robert Altman leyó los relatos de Carver y tuvo claro que allí había una película. Para realizarla, el ci- neasta «dialogó» con el escritor, combinó sus textos, movió personajes de una historia a otra y, a su manera, compuso una suerte de memorable «gran novela americana» filmada. Estos son los relatos que inspiraron la película.

Für ›Von wo ich anrufe‹ stellte Raymond Carver selbst seine besten Stories zusammen. Das Schönste aus ›Wovon wir reden, wenn wir von Liebe reden‹, ›Würdest du bitte endlich still sein, bitte‹ und ›Kathedrale‹ sowie sieben bisher unveröffentlichte Erzählungen. Ein beeindruckender Querschnitt durch Carvers Werk - und ein messerscharfes Porträt Amerikas. Raymond Carver ermöglicht dem Leser einen unverstellten Blick auf die dunklen Seiten des amerikanischen Traums und auf die Menschen, denen der Alltag zu entgleiten droht.

Raymond Carver, der Meister der US-Short-Story, schrieb auch eine handvoll Gedichtbände. „Gorki unterm Aschenbecher“ ist eine Auswahl seiner besten Gedichte, die wie „Verkehrsunfälle“ oder wundersame Fluchten sind.„Kein anderer kann in aller Kürze so vielfältig schreiben und so umfassend wie Raymond Carver“. - The New York Times Book Review

"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, maestro di tutta una generazione di scrittori americani, ha sempre il ritmo coinvolgente del grande narratore. Perciò ognuna delle ottantatrè poesie che compongono questo bellissimo libro è un vero e proprio racconto in versi. Ognuna delle poesie fissa con precisione descrittiva piccole situazioni quotidiane in cui vivono le realtà i sogni e le illusioni degli uomini.