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LATE FRAGMENT And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. (from the inscription on Raymond Carver’s tombstone) James Carver recently wrote a very nice piece about love, literature and remembrance that he posted on called “” to commemorate his late brother’s birthday, which was May 25. His big bro was an American literary giant in his day, author of notable works like Cathedral and the stories “Why Don’t You Dance?” and “Errand.” Although he lived a somewhat scandalous, alcohol-fueled life (on a par with other writers like Hemingway, Kerouac and Fitzgerald at times), he’s regarded as a titan in the field of American literature, as evidenced by his induction in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
Elephant and Other Stories [Raymond Carver] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov.
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For those who’ve read Raymond Carver, the link might not seem so obvious, but he actually had a profound effect on another giant’s writing: Murakami Haruki, author of international bestsellers like The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and A Wild Sheep Chase and, more up Carver’s alley, short story collections like The Elephant Vanishes. Today, there’s even a Japanese professor named who teaches a course on the subject and the correlation between the two authors. For those not in the know, and as his go-to translator wrote about in, Murakami used to very much enjoy his Suntory time, maybe not as much as Carver liked his booze, but the two connected early in the Japanese writer’s career, when he was just trying to get a foot in the door with the whole translation thing.
In fact, as Rubin documents in detail, another American literary great, John Irving, whom Murakami went jogging with in Central Park to earn Garp’s trust (which he did after proclaiming his admiration of Setting Free the Bears – ouch!), represented one more of Murakami’s earliest inroads to the country’s literary establishment. That said, I like what brother James had to say at the end of his short piece, as it sums up not only his relationship with his brother, but many of our own relationships with a lot of the people whom we love: “I miss my brother very much. I loved him and respected him enormouslyWe can’t really get inside the other person’s mind to see how it ticks; we can never know the true feelings one may have for another. We can only be guided by the things said and the feelings shown to us by the other person, and believe it to be true. Ray captured the complexity of those relationships, in love or outside of love.”.
Errand 1987 “Errand” originally appeared in The New Yorker in June 1987. It is the last story wrote and is included in his collection of short stories Where I’m Calling From, published just a few months before Carver died in 1988. It was also included in The Best American Stories, 1988 and received first prize in Prize Stories 1988: The O. Henry Awards.
A partly fictionalized account of Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s death, “Errand” is unlike any other Carver story. Carver claimed that he was inspired to write the story while reading Henri Troyat’s biography of Chekhov, one of Carver’s literary idols. The narrative voice of “Errand” is that of a historian, appropriate for a historical story but unusual for Carver in that he seldom wrote explicitly about famous people or mixed fact and fiction in such an obvious manner. Carver details Chekhov’s descent into illness and his eventual death in the town of Badenweiler, Germany in 1904. With Chekhov in bed dying, his wife, Olga Knipper, sends a Russian bellboy on an errand to secure a mortician, hence the story’s title. Carver draws on a number of historical sources including Chekhov’s own writing, Chekhov’s sister Maria Chekhov’s Memoirs, Leo Tolstoy’s journals, and Troyat’s biography.
Through writing an imaginative account of a well-known person’s death, Carver provokes readers to think about the relationship between literature and history and to imagine how they would respond to another person’s death. Critics consider “Errand” to be one of Carver’s best stories and one that will stand the test of time. Raymond Carver’s spare, realistic stories about the hardscrabble lives of the working class are rooted in his own experience. Born in Clatskanie, Oregon, May 25, 1938, to Clevie Raymond Carver and Ella Beatrice Casey, Carver was raised in Yakima, Washington. His father, who suffered from alcoholism, worked in a sawmill, and the family was often financially strapped.
A combination of marital difficulties, heavy drinking, and poverty contributed to Clevie Carver’s emotional breakdown in 1957. That year, Raymond married sixteen-year-old Maryann Burk, and they had their first child, Christine LaRae Carver, who was born in the same hospital in which Carver’s father was being treated. Their second child, Vance Lindsay, was born a year later. Carver was only twenty years old, but already he had two children. He was destined to repeat the pattern of his father’s life: drinking heavily, working in low-paying jobs, and moving his family frequently. Carver writes that his children were the single biggest influence on his writing. The second biggest was the novelist with whom Carver studied at Chico State College in 1959.