https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2 en-us 2018-02-06 09:35:16 UTC 2018-02-06 10:17:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Optimplaces.png camilla_holm_rautenberg https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228492462 - Minimalism, stripped-down style
- He was directed by Gordon Lish  to write in this way
- His style of writing has also been described as dirty realism
- He describes ordinary people (minimalism feature) in his stories, and some critics even calls his characters too ordinary ]]> 2018-02-06 09:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228492462 camilla_holm_rautenberg https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228492483 - Issues of loss and alcoholism are a part of many of Carver's stories
- These issues are a part of the larger issue, which is the isolation and terror of people when a total breakdown of survival systems is at hand
- The issues can be related to his own life]]> 2018-02-06 09:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228492483 camilla_holm_rautenberg https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228492570 - A North American literary movement (1970-80). The narrative only contains the most essential parts (observation)

Carver's style has been described as dirty realism due to his way of writing few closely selected words that describe the surface and observations. Carver depicts the most important aspects or practical details of life when he operates with the themes of isolation and terror of people when a total breakdown of survival systems is at hand - which is the downbeat side of everyday life.]]> 2018-02-06 09:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228492570 camilla_holm_rautenberg https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228493200 Janitor, gas-station attendant, delivery man --> interested in writing after taking a creative-writing course at Chico State College --> studied at Humboldt State College while writing --> first succes in 1967 “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?,” --> writing full time in 1970 --> "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" (1976) --> taught on University of Texas at El Paso and at Syracuse University in late 1970 --> won a literary award 1983.

Was also a poet in the realist tradition of Robert Frost. ]]> 2018-02-06 09:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228493200 erik_melanchton_dinesen https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228493910 - Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. Born in may 25, 1938 - Died in august 2, 1988

- Carver was married 2 times, with Maryann Burk and Tess Gallagher. Carver got two children with Maryann Burk a boy and a girl

- Carver gratuated from Yakima High School in 1956

- Carver began drinking heavily in 1967 and was repeatedly hospitalized for alcoholism in the 1970s.]]> 2018-02-06 09:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228493910 camilla_holm_rautenberg https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228498724 2018-02-06 09:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/erik_melanchton_dinesen/ufc9asw4ytw2/wish/228498724