De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor

These stories by Raymond Carver reveal—almost lightly—the banality of life and the pettiness and transience of grand emotions, capturing the atmosphere and characters of an author who indisputably dominated the American literary landscape of the 1980s. Couples tearing each other apart, companions setting off desperately on an adventure, children trying to communicate with their parents—an unjust, violent, tense, and sometimes absurd universe... In the words of Roberto Fernández Sastre, Carver "does not merely point to the intolerable; he names it. Making no concessions to anything or anyone, he rescues the real in its amorphous, brutal essence."