Beginners: the original version of What we talk about when we talk about love

Raymond Carver

ISBN 10: 0099540320 / ISBN 13: 9780099540328

Editore: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2010

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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. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveals what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that have both inspired and mystified readers for so long. Beginners is a fascinating insight into the aesthetic of a literary great and, in the questions it raises, may just spark off one of the great cultural debates of our times. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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• Titolo: Beginners: the original version of What we talk about when we talk about love
• Editore: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099540320
• ISBN 13: 9780099540328
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 150 grammi

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Riassunto

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love è la più famosa raccolta di racconti di Carver e rimane uno dei pezzi più influenti della letteratura moderna fino ad oggi. Ma il manoscritto originale, non modificato, Beginners, pubblicato qui per la prima volta, era quasi il cinquanta per cento più lungo della raccolta pubblicata. Questa versione restaurata dei racconti di Carver rivela ciò che era stato precedentemente non detto, riempiendo i silenzi narrativi che hanno sia ispirato che sconcertato i lettori per così tanto tempo. Beginners è un'affascinante intuizione nell'estetica di un grande della letteratura e, nelle domande che solleva, potrebbe semplicemente innescare uno dei grandi dibattiti culturali dei nostri tempi.

Informazioni sull?autore

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first short stories appeared in Esquire during Gordon Lish's tenure as fiction editor in the 1970s. Carver's work began to reach a wider audience with the 1976 publication of Will You Please be Quiet, Please, but it was not until the 1981 publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love under Gordon Lish, then at Knopf, that he began to achieve real literary fame. This collection was edited by more than 40 per cent before publication, and Carver dedicated it to his fellow writer and future wife, Tess Gallagher, with the promise that he would one day republish his stories at full length. He went on to write two more collections of stories, Cathedral and Elephant, which moved away from the earlier minimalist style into a new expansiveness, as well as several collections of poetry. He died in 1988, aged fifty.