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For American literature, Raymond Carver is the No. 1 master of short fiction, one of the most important names of the twentieth century. He has been called the "American Chekhov" and was inspired by Hemingway, Faulkner, and Bukowski.

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is a classic of American literature that is not too well known to our readers. Carver transformed his difficult life experience into a unique literary landscape made of the fragments of the broken dreams of small-town America. This "landscape" has become a classic of American literature, greatly inspiring the American art we enjoy today.

The collection of short stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is the apogee of Carver's minimalist style, where every word, every pause and comma counts. The ultra-laconicism of the texts in this collection is also the result of Raymond Carver's forced collaboration with the editor Gordon Lish, who "cut" the already minimalist original text, significantly shortening it and changing some of the storylines. Despite the author's dissatisfaction, it was in this ultra-laconic form that the collection first came to readers and became a cult favourite.