Why Minimalism?——A Reading of Raymond Carver's What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

摘要

Undoubtedly as a master of short stories, Raymond Carver's second collection of short stories invites the reader to reconsider about the topic of minimalism. In this sense, through a detailed analysis of the stories collected in What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, the reader will have explicit understanding of the definition of minimalism in literature, the purposes of Carver's application of it and the efficacy brought to the work itself by adopting minimalism.