by Raymond Carver · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253050124
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«Les Vitamines du bonheur» is Raymond Carver's collection of short stories, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (222 pages, in French).
Twelve stories portraying ordinary lives and everyday gestures: a set of false teeth on the television, a newborn baby, couples in banal conversations. With spare prose, Carver turns the ordinary into something strange and moving, composing twelve variations on solitude, lack of communication, and the human condition.
The original work is «Cathedral» (1983); this French edition is from 1989. Carver won the O. Henry Award (1983) and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize (1984).
For readers of short fiction and contemporary American narrative who appreciate minimalist literature with an intimate atmosphere.
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."
