Raymond Carver, Cathedral

Leon Lewis (Appalachian State University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1983

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

In spite of the difficulties he confronted as he attempted to continue his development as a writer while he struggled to support his family through decades of low-wage jobs, marital discord and alcoholic abuse, Raymond Carver sustained a vision of himself as a member of a company that included Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov, Isaac Babel, Flannery O’Connor, James Joyce, John Cheever and other “wonderful writers I’ve come across in the last year or two”, as he discussed his “literary influences” for The Paris Review in 1983 (Simpson, 309). John Updike’s introduction to the 7^th series of Writers At Work cited “Raymond Carver’s tirelessly polished stories”, and quoted Carver’s comment about …

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Citation: Lewis, Leon. "Cathedral". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 April 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6140, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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