Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Mandarin Edition)

Raymond Carver

feb 2014 · Simon and Schuster

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《请你安静些，好吗？》

With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.

《请你安静些,好吗?》是卡佛文学创作的处女作，是卡氏风格的奠基之作，为其一生的创作主旨设定了基调，同时也是其第一本具有广泛影响力的短篇小说集。它于1976年在美国甫一出版即获好评，并于1977年被题名国家图书奖。

卡佛曾说过：“对大多数人而言，人生不是什么冒险，而是一股莫之能御的洪流。”在这本短篇小说集里，我们所看到的，就是这样的人生片段。它写的完全不是冒险奋战的英雄人物，而是我们身边毫不起眼却终日陷在生活琐事、人际关系难题里的小人物。卡佛以极简的文字，将生活中最不起眼的时刻写得朴实而暗含张力，他的风格影响了当今许多名家。

Informazioni sull'autore

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol, which had contributed to the collapse of his marriage. In 1977 he met the writer Tess Gallagher, with whom he shared the last eleven years of his life. During this prolific period he wrote three collections of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral and Elephant. Fires, a collection of essays, poems and stories, appeared in 1985, followed by three further collections of poetry. In 1988 he completed the poetry collection A New Path to the Waterfall.