미니멀리즘 , 레이먼드 카아버 , 그리고 『 대성당 』 = Minimalism , Raymond Carver , and Cathedral

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Raymond Carver is very successful as a short-story writer in America. In other words, as a short-story writer, Carver has been acclaimed as one of the so-called minimalist writers, whose stories have already been regarded as the masterpieces of American short-stories. Almost all of the characters of his stories are ordinary, unlucky people, not fortunate people, who are alienated and diminished from the hostile society, and are living in a dehumanizing society. They are all victims of their inability to communicate in a dehumanizing society. Cathedral, his third collection of short stories, confirms his place among short story writers of the first rank. Cathedral was chosen by The Times as one of the 13 best books of 1983. Six of the twelve stories in Cathedral are first person narrations. This title masterpiece, Cathedral is a lovely piece with its first person narrator trying to describe to a blind man, his wife`s old friend, what a cathedral is like in order to share the experience. And in the end, the two hands moving together-one guided by sight and the other not-the blind man, really more perceptive than the other, achieves a new dimension of perception. With deep and creative connections between humans revealed through Carver`s creatures, they are gaining an insight into the meaning of life.