New Releases by Raymond Carver

In un unico, prestigioso cofanetto, una raccolta che include tutte le poesie di Raymond Carver con testo originale a fronte. Un'occasione per celebrare un grande scrittore che, in prosa e in versi, ha saputo raccontare con verità, economia di stile e profondità di sguardo il mondo degli ultimi, dei reietti, dei senza riscatto. «E hai ottenuto quello che / volevi da questa vita, nonostante tutto? / Sì. / E cos'è che volevi? / Potermi dire amato, sentirmi / amato sulla terra». Con questo frammento poetico, nel 1988, Raymond Carver prendeva congedo dal mondo. E i versi, insieme alla prosa cristallina dei suoi racconti, ai saggi, ai ricordi personali, hanno costituito fin dagli esordi la sua cifra, scandendo una ricerca letteraria che nella brevità, nella sintesi, nella sottrazione, nelle minute epifanie del quotidiano ha trovato la sua chiave. Nei due volumi di questo cofanetto è presente la sua intera opera poetica. Un'occasione unica per imparare a conoscere, anche al di là delle tre raccolte che lo hanno reso celebre, le tante forme diverse che Carver ha utilizzato per raccontare se stesso, il suo mondo, i personaggi stralunati e sconfitti che lo popolano. Con un'introduzione di Tess Gallagher e un'intervista inedita.

Nel 1984, all'indomani del successo di Cattedrale, Raymond Carver volle riunire in questa raccolta saggi, poesie e racconti perlopiù inediti. Proprio la sua varietà fa di questo libro (che prende il nome da una lunga poesia dedicata a Charles Bukowski) un grandangolo sull'intera produzione carveriana, attraversata da fittissime corrispondenze e da un'esemplare coerenza di toni, idee, intenti. «Carver è lo scrittore che più di ogni altro ha influenzato la letteratura di lingua inglese degli ultimi vent'anni. Le sue cadenze si ritrovano ovunque, e così le sue ambientazioni, i suoi personaggi», scrive Rick Moody. «Ma l'aspetto più sorprendente e rivoluzionario di questo libro è sicuramente l'eredità che ci lascia in termini di compassione: dopo aver letto Carver diventa pressoché impossibile, per uno scrittore, sottrarsi alla responsabilità della compassione nei confronti dei propri personaggi. È una rivoluzione per la quale dovremmo tutti essergli grati. Così come gli siamo grati per il puro piacere che ci viene dalla lettura di queste pagine».

Raymond Carver alcanzó el éxito gracias a un puñado de volúmenes de relatos publicados en los últimos doce años de su vida. Su carrera fue breve debido a su temprana muerte. Sin embargo, su obra posee una intensidad sin parangón y ha dejado una huella indeleble; su influencia se ha extendido por todo el mundo. Fue, junto con Richard Ford y Tobias Wolff, el máximo exponente de lo que se bautizó como «realismo sucio». En sus cuentos, lacónicos, precisos, de una contenida intensidad emocional, transforma la vida en literatura siguiendo la estela de Hemingway y sobre todo de Chéjov, su gran maestro. De él aprendió a retratar con profunda humanidad a esos seres desamparados y desolados, golpeados por la vida, a los que convierte en héroes cotidianos: parejas al borde de la disolución, hijos que tratan de comunicarse con sus padres, alcohólicos en busca de una segunda oportunidad, parados, gente corriente de la América más profunda y real. Sus cuentos forman una elusiva y fragmentaria «gran novela americana». Y es que en Carver está la esencia de la verdadera América –doméstica, desquiciada, perpleja-, y sobre todo la esencia del alma humana retratada a través de una mirada que rechaza cualquier exceso sentimental, pero que, guiada por un depurado estilo, nos hiere directamente en el corazón como sólo es capaz de hacer la gran literatura.

A rich collection of poems from not only “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America’s most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Raymond 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.

The first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. "[Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature." —The New York Times Book Review "One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time." —The Philadelhpia Inquirer "The whole collection is a knock out. Few writers can match Raymond Carver's entwining style and language." —The Dallas Morning News

Winner of Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize • An illuminating collection of poems from the middle of Carver's career that “function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge” (The New York Times). "The stories poems tell are so wonderfully self-contained, so self-evident, so gracefully metaphorical." —The Village Voice "There is a severity of language, an understatement of emotion, that endows the poems of his first major collection with the feel of extraordinary experience. To read them is to have the sense this man has lived more than most of us. We trust him because of the plainly conversational diction and the lapel-grabbing rhythms.... They are very moving, very memorable." —Poetry

The complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered “last” stories, published here in book form for the first time—from “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver’s mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver’s writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have already entered the canon of modern literature.

From “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—comes more than sixty stories, poems, and essays, including two early versions from the seminal collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. "Show[s] the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold." —San Francisco Chronicle A wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories that were later significantly revised in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love appear here in their original form, revealing clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.

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.

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.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • From one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature, the story that launched a thousand homages, in word and film—a haunting meditation on love and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is included here with its unedited version, “Beginners,” which was originally submitted to Carver’s editor, Gordon Lish. In this eShort, readers can compare both versions of this iconic work of fiction, gaining insight into Carver’s aesthetic and the foundations of the contemporary American short story.

《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》 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. 《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》是雷蒙德·卡佛优秀的短篇小说集，由17篇短篇小说组成。讲述了如餐馆女招待、锯木厂工人、修车工、推销员和汽车旅馆管理员等社会底层的体力劳动者的生活。这些普通人有着普通人的愿望，做着再普通不过的事情，但他们发现自己在为生存而挣扎，无法达到在常人看来并不远大的人生目标。他们的生活中充满了窘困和不如意，婚姻破裂，失业，酗酒，破产。卡佛用“极简”的遣词、冷静疏离的叙事，表现了现代社会中人的边缘性以及现代人脆弱的自我意识。本书的出版，为美国短篇小说写作注入了新的生命，并为卡佛赢得了“美国的契诃夫”的称号，使他成为美国继海明威之后受到模仿最多的作家。

Se hai bisogno, chiama svela un Carver doppiamente inedito: quello giovanile degli esordi su oscure riviste all'inizio degli anni Sessanta, e quello postumo, con i racconti su cui stava lavorando poco prima di morire, ormai maestro di uno stile inconfondibile. L'evoluzione di un autore che con le sue storie ha reso visibile la bellezza e commosso i lettori di tutto il mondo.

Principiants és la versió original del recull de relats més famós que va escriure Raymond Carver -De què parlem quan parlem de l'amor- abans que Gordon Lish, el seu editor i mentor, la modifiqués de manera substancial per publicar-lo el 1981. Amb el temps, el text que va veure la llum esdevindria una de les obres que més han influenciat en la literatura moderna.Carver es preocupa per reflectir l'essència de les coses. Una joveneta balla amb el nòvio al jardí d'una casa, entre les despulles materials de la vida del propietari; un home de mitjana edat percep els primers indicis dels perills de la vida adulta, i sent com l'envaeix una "felicitat insuportable"; una parella que viu i treballa en un motel s'adona, amb gran dolor, que la seva relació s'ha esgotat. A mesura que ens movem a través de les petites i múltiples tragèdies inscrites en el cor d'allò més normal i corrent, prenem consciència de nous significats i matisos. Principiants és una profunda i fascinant incursió dins de l'estètica d'un dels autors contemporanis més influents del segle XX.«L'autèntic Carver que veiem ara és molt més tendre, menys cru que el Carver de Lish. L'autèntic Carver dóna peu a digressions i històries secundàries. L'autèntic Carver no és carverià». Blake Morrison

En quatre-vingts poèmes, ce recueil dessine un autoportrait de Raymond Carver. Un écrivain seul à sa fenêtre, le regard perdu dans un paysage figé par le givre, le souvenir d'une soirée de Noël gâchée par l'alcool, une séparation sur une aire de parking: autant de sublimes instantanés poétiques, recueillis par un virtuose de la " short story ".

Korean edition of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver. Translated by Jeong Yeong Mun In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Part of The Wadsworh Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a reader needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location. Includes a concise guide to MLA documentation, including information on what kinds of information require documentation and what kinds do not.

Los dramas aparentemente más triviales, las catástrofes silenciosas de la gente común. En ¿Quieres hacer el favor de callarte, por favor?, su primer libro de relatos, que escribió y reescribió a lo largo de quince años y que le supuso la consagración inmediata, Raymond Carver renovó la forma del relato breve hasta darle proporciones de haiku y sin que este uso radical de la elipsis le haga perder ninguna fuerza. Todo lo contrario, los relatos de Carver poseen, quizá precisamente por su mismo carácter fragmentario, una inesperada capacidad de provocar una impresión fortísima, una indeleble conmoción. Los dramas aparentemente más triviales, las catástrofes silenciosas de la gente más común: tal es el territorio en el que se mueven siempre los inquietantes relatos de Carver.

Over the past 15 years, Granta has published fiction, memoir, biography, and reportage inspired by the relationships forced on us by the accident of birth. From Saul Bellow's tale of his immigrant parents to Bret Easton Ellis' chilling description of a Hollywood marriage, the best and, at times, the most disturbing are collected here in this noteworthy collection.

Raymond Carver's gritty texts, combined with Adelman's photographs of Carver's people and haunts, re-create the world of this major writer, bringing to life the bleak, blue-collar towns, people, and places that became the inspiration for much of his work. 113 duotone photos.