In Raymond Carver's stories, it is dangerous even to speak. Conversation completes the damage people have already done to one another in silence. It is not safe to form a sentence or even to speak a name. To say "Duane" or "Holly" is to pronounce yet another doom. This is the fiction Carver writes, and I know of nothing stronger in its kind.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Denis Donoghue on Raymon Carver's work
In Raymond Carver's stories, it is dangerous even to speak. Conversation completes the damage people have already done to one another in silence. It is not safe to form a sentence or even to speak a name. To say "Duane" or "Holly" is to pronounce yet another doom. This is the fiction Carver writes, and I know of nothing stronger in its kind.
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