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Cathedral - Raymond Carver - A collection of stories

Cathedral - Raymond Carver - Collection of short stories make up this

Twelve stories written by Raymond Carver, stories that speak of human life "common", their routine every day, those little things that Carver loved to watch and tell time. Raymond Carver is one of most important writers of contemporary American literature, a man who started from nothing, then recognized as the founder of the "minimalist" literature.

writer living the post-war America, the U.S. and alienating the gray suburbs, lives doing odd jobs and cultivating only in their free time (at least initially) its ability writing, through the creative writing courses, which will give you the confidence and patience that he missed the first. Has serious problems with alcohol and smoking, it will defect to him then lethal.

am well aware that talk about the life of a writer in a review may be unnecessary, but in this case is more necessary than ever to understand where the beauty of this book. The protagonists of the narratives of the Cathedral are men like Carver, of ordinary men, blue-collar, the so-called "working class", which play completely normal lives. "Good demons", as would another great American literature, Charles Bukowski.

But Carver's art is in telling the gray lives of these men, carp, however, the beauty, the poetry that can hide behind seemingly insignificant existence. In the stories of the Cathedral, which flow through plans to write a concise and precisely "minimalist", there is always an event that upsets the whole, something extraordinary, for better or for worse.

The final story in the book, the most important and most famous, which gives its name to the collection, about a blind man and how a reasonable person may be upset, his whole vision of how things can be contaminated by the extraordinary sensitivity of a man and to society is not a "normal", why do not blind.

The "technical omission" and the importance given to what is not written, but it is more important than what is explicitly expressed, are the elements that make Carver a unique writer. Read Carver is like "looking at reality through the keyhole," be surprised by what can only find out if you have the desire to look.

Written by: Andrea Gaetani

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