レイモンド・カーヴァー『大聖堂』に関する一考察

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  • レイモンド カーヴァー ダイセイドウ ニ カンスル イチ コウサツ
  • A study of Cathedral by Raymond Carver

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The theme of Cathedral, the best collection of Raymond Carver's short stories will be studied, especially focusing on "Cathedral", "Feathers", "Preservation", "Vitamins", and "chef's House" Carver described "Cathedral," the first story that he wrote after What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and acknowledged a change in his fiction, which he correlated with the circumstances of his life, getting sober, and feeling more hope with Tess Gallagher, his best partner. Carver's stable life in the late 1970 s and 1980 s influenced his works. Interaction is essential to the characters. "Cathedral," Carver's most famous story returns to this formula with extraordinary success, offering characters of a gregarious blind man, Robert and a sarcastic, unnamed narrator in this story that results in true liberation through the spiritual eye. With Robert's hand over the narrator begins to draw the cathedral, the collaborative act representing a higher level of communication. Through this connection, the drawn cathedral begins to assume symbolic significance for the narrator's mind. In the end, temporarily deprived of sight when he closes his eyes, the cynical narrator symbolically becomes part of a larger community dignified by its association with the venerable. In "Feathers", most of the story depicts Jack and Fran, their evening with Bud and Olla who lead an odd but happy life, which seems old-fashioned for the former couple and is disappearing in American modern times. However, the loving nature of Bud and Olla's home, which has an ugly baby and a grotesque peacock, finally affects Jack and Fran and their relationship deteriorates to where silence and isolation dominate. In "Preservation," "Chef's House" and "Vitamins" as well, Carver describes some couples in painful relationships or after a breakup has shattered their happy lives, that is, a collapsing family. In Carver's style, he describes Cathedral stories in his late writing times, as fuller, stronger, more hopeful than his earlier stories, yet the relationship in the married couples deteriorates, and they suffer dissociation, alienation and isolation.

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