Raymond Carver

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Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver (born May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie , Oregon , † August 2, 1988 in Port Angeles , Washington ) was an American writer and poet.

Life

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon and grew up in Yakima, Washington .

Carver studied creative writing with the author John Gardner at Chicago State College. At Humboldt State College in California, where he obtained a BA in 1963, and at the University of Iowa, he continued his studies. During his lifetime he published a number of short stories in various magazines, including The New Yorker and Esquire , which report on the lives of ordinary people. His work is characterized by its laconic style, in which his editor at Esquire , Gordon Lish , played a major role. In recent years Lish's sometimes massive interventions in Carver's texts have been increasingly criticized. While Carver was still alive, individual stories appeared in a form cleared of these interventions. Stylistically, Carver is assigned to literary minimalism .

Carver was married to the lyric poet Tess Gallagher and was good friends with Tobias Wolff and Richard Ford . In 1988 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Carver was an alcoholic from his time at Humboldt State College until ten years before his death. Many of his stories testify to his addiction to alcohol.

Carver died of lung cancer in Port Angeles, Washington, at the age of 50 .

Carver's stories were translated into Japanese by Haruki Murakami .

Appreciations

AL Kennedy describes why she has something from Raymond Carver in her library: "Here is the volume of Raymond Carver I threw across the room when I was a student because it was so amazing, so tender with broken people."

Works

  • Cathedral . Translation by Klaus Hoffer . Munich: Piper, 1985
  • What we talk about when we talk about love . Translation by Klaus Hoffer . Munich: Piper, 1989
  • Why don't you dance . Claudia Wenner in Romanian. Munich: Piper, 1992
  • Would you finally be quiet, please ... Translation Helmut Frielinghaus . Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-442-76007-0
  • First and last stories . Translation by Helmut Frielinghaus . Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2002. ISBN 3-8333-0098-1
  • Distant (original version of the story everything stuck to him ). In: Krachkultur 12/2008
  • Beginners: Uncut - The original version . Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag, 2012. ISBN 3-10-010150-2

Von Carvers Lyrik is currently only available in German:

  • Gorky under the ashtray . Translation by Uwe Hienz. Maro-Verlag, 1992. ISBN 3-87512-209-7
  • Poems (small selection from the last poems). In: Krachkultur 12/2008
  • A new path to the waterfall , last poems, S. Fischer Verlag 2013

Film adaptations

Secondary literature

  • Jutta Person: Less is More. Minimalism in short prose Raymond Carvers, Frederick Barthelmes and Mary Robisons , WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 1999
  • Helmut Frielinghaus: Raymond Carver and his discoverer and editor Gordon Lish , in: Krachkultur 12/2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AL Kennedy, Home thoughts, and abroad , AL Kennedy on writing / booksblog / theguardian.com , February 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Carver, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Clatskanie, Oregon
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1988
Place of death Port Angeles