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Arthur F. Bethea, « Now This Is Affirmation of Life: Raymond Carver’s Posthumously Published Stories », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.g9nys4
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Frequently Raymond Carver has been associated with a pessimistic sensibility, and rightly so. Published individually for the first time in 1999 and 2000 and then collected in Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose more than a decade after Carver’s death, “Dreams,” “Vandals,” “What Would You Like To See?,” “Call If You Need Me,” and “Kindling” reveal a far more life-affirming Carver. Although this fiction does not prove that Carver was moving toward optimism in his final years – the composition time of at least some of these tales predates the “new” stories in Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, the last collection that Carver published before his death – the posthumous fiction convincingly depicts a world of greater value. Although the typical Carver problems remain – alcoholism, for example, and marital breakups – in comparison to his previous collections, these stories demonstrate an amazingly expanded world with characters much more economically, intellectually, psychologically, socially, and even spiritually endowed.