/lit/ - Literature

>>2241902
After reading Carvers final collection of poems "A New Path to the waterfall" and his last story collection "Elephant" I've become quite convinced that our Raymond was preparing to write a novel. We believe we have fragments of such a book entitled "The Augustine Notebooks."

What a novel it would have been. At that point in Carver's career, nearing his death, he most certainly perfected his style, abandoning some of the idiosyncrasies perpetrated by Lish as Raymond's editor, eventually finding a voice in his fiction as prolific and inexorable as in his poetry.

That novel would have been beautiful.