At 12:18 PM 7/11/00 -0700, Dick Lochte wrote:
Is Raymond Carver (to use an arguable case)
>hardboiled? Or: Is Raymond Carver worth
reading?
I would say No and No. But I realize what
you mean. Carver is an adept imitator of the Hemingway
deadpan style and this sometimes gives his stories a tough
vibe that they really don't earn. A few years ago there was a
bit of a scandal when a journalist advanced the thesis that
Carver's books were effectively ghost-written by his
editor.....over RC's objections. Very pitiful story and I
hope it's not true. Carver himself always gave the credit for
his writing skills to John Gardner....not that one, the other
one.
Of the literati, I place William Kennedy as
the closest to HB - in
_Billy Phelan's Greatest Game_.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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