Cathedral
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'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the...
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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'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Many view this story, and indeed this collection, as a watershed in the maturing of Carver's work to a more confidently poetic style.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099530336 (0099530333)
Publish date: November 5th 2009
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
wonderful characterisations but content? zzzzzzzz
Extraordinary writing, so simple and wonderfully crafted. If nothing else, read this just to enjoy great writing.
As it usually happens, I subjectively liked some stories more than others. It has nothing to do with Mr. Carver's obvious talent and keen eye for the little details life is made of. It might be just me, but I felt that in almost all stories there's a strange feeling of loneliness and alienation, as ...
OK, so the craft and the talent behind these stories is undoubted, but there was very little about them to love.They were mostly about endings, and people keeping on anyway. Sometimes they had a shred of hope like in the title story or "Where I'm Calling From", but mostly it was about keeping your h...
On the whole I liked this collection better than "What we talk about...". I see myself reading both collections again I just felt there was more humanity in this collection.The real experience here was the story "A Small, Good Thing". This seems to be one of the examples of story restored to pre-L...
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