Essay Archive - Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very
different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the
essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction
could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers."( Bonetti
58) Thus, when Carver writes about intimate relationships, the reader perceives
the stories as more than entertainment or skillful language; the reader rela....
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