Cathedral_by Raymond Carver

Cathedral_by Raymond Carver

 

1938년 Clatskaine, Oregon출신. 1976년 作, Will you Please Be Quite, Please? 성공후 禁酒.

1988 死去

作品集

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

Cathedral and Elephant

Fires

 

作品集 Cathedral. 短篇12작품 수록.

 

平易하며 大事件 은 없다. 小市民 이런 저런 삶의 斷面, 술과 이혼, 애인과의 사소한 이야기.

문득, 나의 이야기도 끼어들고, Jack London도, 담배도 연기를.

특별한 惡人은 없다. 사소한 저마다의 個人. 絶望, 挫折, 알콜中毒.

 

 

Where I’m Calling From

알코올중독자 요양원이다. Frank Martin’s drying-out facility.  

自,他意로 입소한 남자들. 갓 들어온 친구의 간질 발작.

 

p.119

But he told me that being at the bottom of that well had made a lasting impression. He’s sat there and looked up at the well mouth. Way up the top, he could see a circle of blue sky. Every once in a while a white cloud passed over. A flock of birds flew across.

 

P121

And then she asks the friend if he wants to kiss her. “ It’s supposed to bring good luck,” she says.

 

 

Cathedral

盲人

 

P213

He found my hand, the hand with the pen. He closed his hand over my hand. “Go ahead, bud, draw.” He said. “ Draw, You’ll see. I’ll follow along with you.

 

 

P214

The blind man said, “ We’re drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,” he said to me.

 

 

2019년7월

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