Catedral -v2*

by Raymond Carver

Overview

Se ha afirmado que el relato es la forma narrativa por excelencia en la literatura norteamericana actual y que Raymond Carver es el maestro indiscutible de este registro. Sus personajes son gente de lo más comun: trabajadores manuales, empleaduchos, parados, parejas a la deriva, desamparados, golpeados por la vida; muchos de ellos bebedores, acceden, a pesar suyo, a una suerte de dimensión heroica, tercos testimonios de una realidad implacable. Su estilo es escueto, lacónico, opera por sustracción; se ha dicho que Carver inaugura una nueva visión, un nuevo método, una nueva tonalidad.

It is generally agreed that the story is the narrative form par excellence within contemporary North American literature and that Raymond Carver is the indisputable master of this register. In each story of Cathedral the latent presence or intrusion of “extraordinary terrors within an ordinary existence” is revealed (Cathleen Medwick). His characters are of ordinary stock: manual workers, underlings, the unemployed and the helpless. They achieve, despite of themselves, a certain heroic dimension, giving their stubborn testimonies of a relentless reality. His style is concise and laconic; it has been said that Carver inaugurates a new vision, a new method and a new tonality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788433928535
Publisher:	Anagrama
Publication date:	11/05/2024
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

One of the most influential writers of the 1970s and '80s, Raymond Carver forged a new kind of language for telling stories that was spare, raw, and emotionally resonant. His first collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please was a National Book Award nominee; his third, Cathedral, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1988, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died later that year, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall.