![]() ![]() ![]() The story affirms something.īruce Allen of The Christian Science Monitor considered "Cathedral" to be "among the year's finest fiction," and he wrote, "The story is about learning how to imagine, and feel - and it's the best example so far of the way Raymond Carver's accomplished miniaturist art is stretching itself, exploring new territories." Samuel Coale of The Providence Journal praised the way an "unpoetic soul" is able to describe the cathedral to a blind man: "Even in such nihilistic landscapes, epiphanies are still possible, and Carver makes us feel them with a quiet, smouldering joy that only such accurate and unblurred landscapes in fiction can produce. He puts himself in the blind man's place. ![]() The character there is full of prejudices against blind people. The story "Cathedral" seemed to me completely different from everything I'd written before. "Cathedral" is generally considered to be one of Carver's finest works, displaying both his expertise in crafting a minimalist story and also writing about a catharsis with such simple storylines. Cathedral by Raymond Carver is about a man confronting his own insecurities and assumptions and connecting with a blind man over a transformative experience. It is the final story in Carver's collection Cathedral (1983). The short story "Cathedral" was included in the 1982 edition of Best American Short Stories. It is the title story of a collection published in 1983: Cathedral. It was the first story written after finishing What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. " Cathedral" is a short story written by American writer and poet Raymond Carver. ![]()
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The way and meaning of life will then be understood, which will enlighten people on how to live in this absurd society. Therefore, the analysis of the deconstruction space in novels and its effects on the metamorphosis of character ideology will unveil to us the survival dilemma and ideological alienation of those modern people who are gradually marginalized. ![]() ![]() The deconstruction of space in his novels, The Trial and The Castle, makes the story transcend the reality, under which the conventional concepts in the real world are subverted so that readers can understand the spiritual world of the characters more thoroughly. With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. Austrian novelist Franz Kafka, as a representative writer of European novels in the twentieth century, has been titled by many critics as a nihilist, a realist writer, and the founder of the absurd for the absurd background often constructed in his works and his non-mainstream thoughts. ![]() |