PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Rainer Funk is Director of the Erich Fromm Institute Tuebingen, Co-Director of the Erich Fromm Study Center at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin, and a practicing psychoanalyst based in Tuebingen, Germany. He is Erich Fromm’s sole Literary Executor and among his publications are the 10-volume German edition of Erich Fromm Collected Works (1980 and 1981; expanded to 12-volumes in 1999). Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) studied sociology and psychoanalysis. In 1933, he emigrated as a member of the Frankfurt School of social thinkers to the United States, moved to Mexico in 1950, and spent his twilight years between 1974 and 1980 in Switzerland. His books Fear of Freedom (1941) and The Art of Loving (1956) made him famous. Other well-known books are Marx's Concept of Man, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, and The Essential Fromm.
Trace a line from Chekhov straight to Carver - possibly this century's most distinguished and striking short story writer. He sadly died in 1988, leaving a smattering of brilliant short fiction and poems behind him. His writing is such that once bitten the reader becomes ravenous for more, but ever conscious of a dwindling supply, it is better to savour them slowly and deliciously. This collection features his last seven stories and is typical - he writes sparely of the domestic dilemmas of american men and their, often, estranged women, children and parents. Nothing and everything happens, beneath the apparently mundane events of day-to-day life, powerful emotions broil and churn. This collection features an extraordinary story, Blackbird Pie, in which a man emerges from his study on a foggy night to find his wife leaving him - in the course of their fraught discussions, loose horses burst out of the mist into their garden. Like strange and beautiful after-images burnt onto the retina, Carver's visions linger. (Kirkus UK)
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