by Raymond Carver · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433914835
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«¿Quieres hacer el favor de callarte, por favor?» is the short story collection by Raymond Carver, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (240 pages).
Carver's first collection of stories, rewritten over fifteen years, focuses on the lives of ordinary people: salesmen, waitresses and accountants with unfulfilled desires, silences and small catastrophes. It uses ellipsis and a haiku-like concision to turn trivial dramas into stories of great intensity.
Part of Anagrama's Compactos collection (no. 152), translated by Jesús Zulaika Goicoechea. Original title: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
For readers of short fiction and twentieth-century North American narrative; an ideal starting point to discover Carver's work.
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."
