Cathedral

基本信息

Author: Raymond Carver

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher:Vintage UK (5 Nov 2009)

ISBN:9780099530336

Weight:166g

Dimensions:197 x 134 x 15 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

卡佛致力于描绘美国的蓝领生活，是写失败者的失败者，写酒鬼的酒鬼。生活的变质和走投无路后的无望，是他小说中的常态。小说主人公有饭店女招待、维他命推销员、机械师、邮递员、剃头匠，等等。有评论认为他的小说有“表面的平静，主题的普通，面无表情的叙事，以及想不清楚的人物。”故事多数平常：小夫妇没能生出孩子以至生活灰暗；父母等待被撞伤的孩子醒来，却以孩子悄然离去结尾；卖维他命的女人很焦虑，而丈夫正觊觎着她的同伴……小说常有意想不到的结尾。

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Many view this story, and indeed this collection, as a watershed in the maturing of Carver's work to a more confidently poetic style.

作者简介

雷蒙德·卡佛（1938—1988），美国当代著名短篇小说家、诗人，美国“极简主义”代表作家，并被誉为“新小说”创始者。1938年5月25日出生于俄勒冈州克拉斯坎尼镇，1988年8月2日因肺癌去世。

高中毕业后，即养家糊口艰难谋生，业余学习写作。卡佛人生的前一半充满了苦难与失望。失业，酗酒，破产，妻离子散，友人背弃，坠入人生之谷底。晚年文学声名渐高，却罹患肺癌，五十岁便英年早逝。

卡佛的作品风格和他自身经历密切相关，精简冷硬。他不是用天才来写作，而是呕心沥血的写作。卡佛一生作品以短篇小说和诗为主，代表作有《请你安静一下好不好？》、《谈论爱情时我们说些什么》、《大教堂》、《何方来电》等。

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol, which had contributed to the collapse of his marriage. In 1977 he met the writer Tess Gallagher, with whom he shared the last eleven years of his life. During this prolific period he wrote three collections of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral and Elephant.Fires, a collection of essays, poems and stories, appeared in 1985, followed by three further collections of poetry. In 1988 he completed the poetry collection A New Path to the Waterfall.