Lydia Davis
1) Essays One
Author
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis.
Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive."
Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis's...
Author
Publication Date
2002
Language
English
Description
From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors....
3) The Cows
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize! "You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence....
4) Essays Two
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a selection of her essays for the first time in 2019 with Essays One. Now, Davis continues her non-fiction project with Essays Two.
This...
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
Deutsch
Description
Endlich! "Unsere Fremden" ist die neueste, lang ersehnte Short-Story-Sammlung der US-Kultautorin. Die Einzigartigkeit und Genialität von Lydia Davis' Literatur wird einmal mehr aufs Eindrücklichste untermauert.
Sie ist eine Virtuosin darin, die scheinbar beiläufigen, unbedeutenden Überraschungen des täglichen Lebens aufzuspüren und sie in kurze literarische Meisterwerke zu gießen. Pointiert, urkomisch, fabelhaft, melancholisch, doppelbödig,...
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
Deutsch
Description
Ihre Erzählungen sind manchmal buchstäbliche Einzeiler; oder es sind lange geduldige Beobachtungen von Kühen im Laufe eines Winters vom Küchenfenster eines Landhauses aus. Ihre Stories können aber auch Träume sein, Beschwerdebriefe (an Tiefkühlerbsenproduzenten oder Autoren von Buchhändler-Werbebroschüren) oder Geschichten, die aus den Briefen Flauberts kondensiert wurden.
Lydia Davis schreibt in allen Fällen mit großer Präzision, mit...
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Lydia Davis's collection Almost No Memory is richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self-caught in the paradoxical world. In 'Pastor Elaine's Newsletter,' a harried mother studies a Bible passage; in 'Foucault and Pencil,' a troubled analyst on her way home from a session attempts to distract...
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, deft, and inventive; Lydia Davis' newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis' sincere love and mastery of the form.
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author....
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF 2009
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called " an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( Salon.com ) and " one of the quiet giants . . . of American...
10) Can't and won't
Author
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices.
11) Madame Bovary
Author
Series
Publication Date
1994
Language
English
Description
The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels
“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and...
“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and...
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
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"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis). "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions."--Paul Metcalf. A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of grace...