Bøger af Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date.

Raymond Carver udgør den ene halvdel af den måske mest berømte forfatter/forlægger duo. Carver afleverede manuskriptet, til det der skulle blive han store gennembrud, Hvad vi taler om, når vi taler om kærlighed, til sin redaktør Gordon Lish i 1981. Han blev dog overrasket, da Lish valgte at skære mere end 50 procent af teksten væk. Tilbage stod den hjerteskærende rene minimalisme, der siden har været synonym med forfatterskabet. Raymond Carver lovede sin kone, at han ville udgive novellerne i deres fulde længde på et senere tidspunkt, men han nåede det ikke, før han døde i 1988. Posthumt udkommer nu Begyndere, der er fuldførelsen af Carvers vision om at udgive sine noveller i deres oprindelige form. De samme knivskarpe analyser af menneskets natur og relationer er der stadig, men der er mere kød på historierne. Det, der tidligere var usagt, bliver nu sagt, og nye lag, nuancer og betydninger åbenbarer sig. ”Raymond Carvers noveller tæller blandt mesterværkerne i amerikansk fiktion.” - New York Times

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'.

This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West 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.

Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life;

'I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to people and cause their lives to take a turn...

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).

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time."[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 wriers can match Raymond Carver's entiwining style and language." --The Dallas Morning News

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, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, 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.

More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories-later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love-are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development.

One of Raymond Carver's final collections of poetry, moving from the beauty of the natural world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. Throughout, Carver "has the astonished, chastened voice of a person who has survived a wreck, as surprised that he had a life before it as that he has one afterward, willing to remember both sides" (The New York Times Book Review).

Novellix – Stor litteratur i et lille formatEn æske fuld af kærlighed; med alle begrebets mange facetter. Set udefra kan den være ubegribelig. Set indefra kan den være sindsforstyrrende. Den kan være socialt uacceptabel, fatal, umulig! Og ikke mindst kan den være en helt udefinerbar størrelse, der gennemsyrer alt i alle relationer. Her får du fire fortællinger af fire vidt forskellige forfattere – storslåede på hver deres måde: novellemesteren Raymond Carver, litteraturfornyeren James Joyce, samtidsgeniet Sara Stridsberg og nyklassiske Annie Proulx’ Brokeback Mountain – forlægget for den Oscar-vindende storfilm fra 2005.Æsken indeholder fire bøger:James Joyce – Et smerteligt tilfældeRaymond Carver – Hvad vi taler om, når vi taler om kærlighedAnnie Proulx – Brokeback MountainSara Stridsberg – American Hotel

This prodigiously rich collection 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 inAll of Usare 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, fromFiresto the posthumously publishedNo 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.

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.

Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story.

Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories. This edition includes a selection from the full range of the author's work including, Furious Seasons, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and Cathedral, and seven stories from, Elephant.

Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. For readers who know Carver's middle period only through his selected poems, In a Marine Light (1988), it includes the windfall of 51 poems not previously published in Britain.

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.