Regarding the ear in Raymond Carver’s "Vitamins"
Part I"I could see the smallest things," says the female narrator in the story of the same title, "the clothespins on the line, for instance" (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love). She thus echoes a self-reflexive Carver who could fix his own "regard" on the sub...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2009
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Part I"I could see the smallest things," says the female narrator in the story of the same title, "the clothespins on the line, for instance" (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love). She thus echoes a self-reflexive Carver who could fix his own "regard" on the sub-mimetic activity, the infiniment petit of the sub-conscious forces he glimpsed under the "smooth (but sometimes broken) surface of things" (Fires 17). The hypogean slugs which the narrator's neighbor digs up at night and which... |
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