Lydia Davis

Essays Two

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Produktbeschreibung

Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. 'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi 'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust' Ali Smith Lydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction writing for the first time in 2019 with Essays. Now, she continues the project with Essays Two, focusing on the art of translation, the learning of foreign languages through reading, and her experience of translating, amongst others, Flaubert and Proust, about whom she writes with an unmatched understanding of the nuances of their styles. Every essay in this book is a revelation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• New
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781405992657
• ISBN-10: 1405992654
• Artikelnr.: 76039068

Autorenporträt

Lydia Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
ON TRANSLATION
Twenty-One Pleasures of Translating (and a Silver Lining)
PROUST
Reading Proust for the First Time: A Blog Post
Introduction to Swann's Way
The Child as Writer: The "Steeples" Passage in Swann's Way
Proust in His Bedroom: An Afterword to Proust's Letters to His Neighbor
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH
Reading Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
TRANSLATING FROM ENGLISH INTO ENGLISH
An Experiment in Modernizing Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
Translating Bob, Son of Battle: The Last Gray Dog of Kenmuir
From Memoir to Long Poem: Sidney Brooks's Our Village
TRANSLATING PROUST
Loaf or Hot-Water Bottle: Closely Translating Proust (Proust Talk I)
Hammers and Hoofbeats: Rhythms and Syntactical Patterns in Proust's
Swann's Way (Proust Talk II)
An Alphabet (in Progress) of Proust Translation Observations, from Aurore
to Zut
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: DUTCH
Before My Morning Coffee: Translating the Very Short Stories of A. L.
Snijders
TRANSLATING MICHEL LEIRIS
Over the Years: Notes on Translating Michel Leiris's The Rules of the Game
AN EXCURSION INTO GASCON
Translating a Gascon Folktale: The Language of Armagnac
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: TWO KINDS OF NORWEGIAN
Learning Bokmål by Reading Dag Solstad's Telemark Novel
Reading a Gunnhild Øyehaug Story in Nynorsk
ON TRANSLATION AND MADAME BOVARY
Buzzing, Humming, or Droning: Notes on Translation and Madame Bovary
ONE FRENCH CITY
The City of Arles