For American literature, Raymond Carver is the No. 1 master of short prose, one of the most important names of the 20th century. He was called the "American Chekhov"; Hemingway, Faulkner, and Bukowski inspired him.
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is a classic of American literature that is not well known to our readers. Carver transformed his challenging life experience into a unique literary landscape from the fragments of broken dreams of "small-town" America. This "landscape" became a classic of American literature, enormously inspiring the American art we enjoy today. The short story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is the pinnacle of Carver's minimalist style, where every word, every pause, and comma counts. The brevity of the texts in this collection is also the result of Raymond Carver's forced collaboration with editor Gordon Lish, who "cut" the already minimalistic original text, significantly shortening it and changing some of the storylines. Despite the author's displeasure, it was in this ultra-concise form that the collection first reached readers and became a cult. This is the first edition of Raymond Carver in Ukrainian.
