Re: leaps of illogic, re. Carver and Kafka
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 08:41:09 -0400 (EDT)
Wish I'd read more Kafka now :) Good post, there...
I think Carver's minimalism was a bit more unique than you're giving him
credit for, and I think your opinion of Carver should be based on more than
one story. But at the same time I know a lot of people had the same problems
with Carver you did on the first read. I first read Carver in an American
Short Story class that focused on Carver and Flannery O'Connor. What a pair
:) They had different styles and goals in their writing, both were
consummate storytellers, and people had an equally difficult time "getting
the point of the story." After a couple years I finally figured out their
short stories needed to be approached differently to get meaning out of them.
Once I started doing that many of the more cryptic stories became painfully
obvious. Course, some are still cryptic :)
Jim