http://sepidehsaremi.com/2007/10/16/raymond-carver/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://sepidehsaremi.com/2007/10/16/raymond-carver/#comment-56 will Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:50:18 +0000 http://sepidehsaremi.com/2007/10/16/raymond-carver/#comment-56 I've always liked this book and I've also met his widow and thought she was amazing. I'd like to see the original version as the author intended it. I’ve always liked this book and I’ve also met his widow and thought she was amazing. I’d like to see the original version as the author intended it.

]]> http://sepidehsaremi.com/2007/10/16/raymond-carver/#comment-11 Lewis Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:20:00 +0000 http://sepidehsaremi.com/2007/10/16/raymond-carver/#comment-11 Makes you wonder about the existence of a single, authoritative version of *any* work... Incidentally reminds me of 15th-century books, which tend to exist in as many versions as there were scribes to copy them. Why any publisher is morally outraged about publishing an alternate version of a book (see NYT link) is beyond me… seems to me it would help one triangulate on certain qualities of the work that one or the other version taken individually might obscure, if one wanted to dig that deeply. But I digress. Don’t feel duped. Makes you wonder about the existence of a single, authoritative version of *any* work… Incidentally reminds me of 15th-century books, which tend to exist in as many versions as there were scribes to copy them. Why any publisher is morally outraged about publishing an alternate version of a book (see NYT link) is beyond me… seems to me it would help one triangulate on certain qualities of the work that one or the other version taken individually might obscure, if one wanted to dig that deeply. But I digress. Don’t feel duped.

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