Реймонд Карвер — книжные серии

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.

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, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.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.

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s work and “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. . . . Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty. . . . his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart” (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).

In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark.

“Carver’s gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry…. Sometimes a Carver poem also works as a short story, with all its elements–character, diction, place, event–compressed intact into the brevity of verse. And sometimes Carver delivers the goods in pure lyrical form, in words as full of yearning and sensibility as those of a very young man, but poems possessing the hard-won qualities of focus, stillness and irony only rewarded by experience.”

Winner of Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize, an illuminating collection from the middle of his career, Raymond Carver’s poems “function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

Реймонд Карвер — классик американской литературы XX века, выдающийся мастер короткой формы, наследник Хемингуэя, Фолкнера и Чехова. Его называли минималистом и «грязным реалистом», однако «в его рассказах всегда есть уникальная странность, отзвуки мифа» (Los Angeles Times). Он несколько раз получал премию О. Генри, выходил в финал Национальной книжной премии США и Пулицеровской премии, Роберт Олтмен поставил по его рассказам фильм «Короткий монтаж» (в ролях Энди Макдауэлл, Джек Леммон, Джулианна Мур, Роберт Дауни-мл., Тим Роббинс, Том Уэйтс), получивший «Золотого льва» на Венецианском кинофестивале, а сюжет снятого одним непрерывным дублем…

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.

This powerful collection of stories, set in the NorthWest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential pieces of literary fiction.

Рассказы американского писателя Реймонда Карвера с первого взгляда кажутся посвященными сугубо бытовой тематике, но на самом деле вскрывают серьезные социальные проблемы, отмечены глубоким психологизмом и удивительной емкостью слова.