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Carvers Realism from Fires
Title: Carvers Realism from Fires
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1184 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Carvers Realism from Fires
How does Carver create precision of reality
with his characters, focusing on Fires?
When looking at the works of Raymond Carver, one can feel a sense of autobiography, that the characters in his stories are struggling against the same circumstances that Carver himself once struggled through. How true this is, is marginal to say the least, for Carver tells us in Fires that anything from a phone call to living in a seedy apartment in …showed first 75 words of 1184 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1184 total…with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.” (Gentry, p.38) At one time Carver was all of these. And so were his characters.
Bibliography
Carver, R (1997)
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
The Harvill Press: London
Gentry, M.B., Stull, W.L., eds.(1990)
Conversations with Raymond Carver
University Press of Mississippi: Jackson
Nesset, K (1995)
The Stories of Raymond Carver-A Critical Study
Ohio University Press: Athens
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