Raymond Carver’s America profonda
Sculpting the WordIn one of his last interviews to Francesco Durante in Rome (April 1978), Raymond Carver made several assertions that shortly afterwards were to acquire a prophetic quality representative of his writing. Chief among them is a sentence that can be looked on as a manifesto of his poe...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2006
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | Sculpting the WordIn one of his last interviews to Francesco Durante in Rome (April 1978), Raymond Carver made several assertions that shortly afterwards were to acquire a prophetic quality representative of his writing. Chief among them is a sentence that can be looked on as a manifesto of his poetics: “Writing is an act of discovery.” This image brings to mind the work of a sculptor striving to reveal, and thereby liberating, the object imprisoned in a block of stone. Ironically enough, Ca... |
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