by Raymond Carver · OLIVIER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782879290591
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«Neuf histoires et un poème» is a short story collection by Raymond Carver, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (188 pages, in French).
The nine stories and the poem share Carver's dirty realism: ordinary lives marked by routine, fragile relationships and disillusionment. With a dry style, he portrays waitresses, the unemployed, neighbors or fishermen in whose daily life a glimmer of emotion or violence appears. Includes «Les vitamines du bonheur» and «Tais-toi, je t'en prie, tais-toi!».
The original work is «Short Cuts»; the translation from American English is by Jean-Pierre Carasso, Simone Hilling, François Pasquin and Gabrielle Rolin.
For readers of short fiction and contemporary literature interested in American dirty realism.
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."
