by Raymond Carver · COLLINS & HARVILL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780002710404
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«Elephant and Other Stories» is Raymond Carver's collection of short stories, published by Collins & Harvill in paperback (128 pages, in English).
The seven stories in the collection are the last Carver wrote, with simple sentences and scenes from ordinary life. It closes with «Errand», one of his longest texts, in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, the writer he admired and with whom his work was often compared.
The collection was originally published in 1988; this paperback edition is from 1989.
For readers of short fiction and literary fiction, particularly those interested in the contemporary American short story.
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."
