Cathedral
by Raymond Carver(1983)
Short Storyc. 15 pages
“A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.”
One great work, every day
by Raymond Carver(1983)
“A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.”
Raymond Carver(1983)
A man dreads the visit of his wife's old friend, a blind man named Robert. His discomfort with blindness, with intimacy, with anything outside his narrow life is palpable from the first sentence. Then, late at night, they draw a cathedral together. Raymond Carver's minimalist prose has never been more powerful than here, where what is left unsaid carries all the weight. The story enacts its own theme: connection across difference, the unexpected grace of being seen. It is the title story of the collection that secured Carver's reputation.