1 Followers
25 Following
bossyfemme

bossyfemme

Currently reading

Moominsummer Madness
Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton

Short Cuts: Selected Stories

Short Cuts: Selected Stories - Raymond Carver, Robert Altman I grabbed this collection because my library didn't have "What we talk about..." available. I didn't know about the film, either, and I didn't remember Carver being so unrelentingly brutal as these collected stories are. I'd like to reread some of the original collections soon because I am curious about whether the emotional atmosphere is always this gruelling.

Someone said once that misogyny is domestic terrorism & the stories in this collection illustrate that to a degree that made me nauseous. I read another review of this book that said "This made me want to get drunk and beat my wife - but beautifully!" & that is just tremendously appalling. When I think of Carver as a great & effective writer, that type of sentiment is so far from what I mean. These stories all enact a casual brutality against women - but the idea that some readers take that to be an endorsement is horrifying, especially since so much time has passed since these stories were originally published - you'd hope you could expect better from men today.