Lydia Davis

Essays One (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades.

In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote's painting, and from the Shepherd's Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374719241
• Artikelnr.: 57069949

Autorenporträt

Lydia Davis is the author of The End of the Story: A Novel and several story collections, including Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and most recently, Can't and Won't. She is also the acclaimed translator of Swann's Way and Madame Bovary, both of which were awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was described by James Wood in The New Yorker as a "grand cumulative achievement." She is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
THE PRACTICE OF WRITING
A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked: Forms and Influences I
Commentary on One Very Short Story ("In a House Besieged")
From Raw Material to Finished Work: Forms and Influences II
A Note on the Word Gubernatorial
VISUAL ARTISTS: JOAN MITCHELL
Joan Mitchell and Les Bluets, 1973
WRITERS
John Ashbery's Translation of Rimbaud's Illuminations
Young Pynchon
The Story Is the Thing: Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women
A Close Look at Two Books by Rae Armantrout
Small but Perfectly Formed: Five Favorite Short Stories
VISUAL ARTISTS: JOSEPH CORNELL
The Impetus Was Delight: A Response by Analogy to the Work of Joseph
Cornell
THE PRACTICE OF WRITING (2)
Sources, Revision, Order, and Endings: Forms and Influences III
Revising One Sentence
Found Material, Syntax, Brevity, and the Beauty of Awkward Prose: Forms and
Influences IV
Fragmentary or Unfinished: Barthes, Joubert, Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Flaubert
Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits
VISUAL ARTISTS: ALAN COTE
Energy in Color: Alan Cote's Recent Paintings
WRITERS (2)
"Emmy Moore's Journal" by Jane Bowles
Osama Alomar's Very Short Tales in Fullblood Arabian
Haunting the Flea Market: Roger Lewinter's The Attraction of Things
Red Mittens: Anselm Hollo's Translation from the Cheremiss
In Search of Difficult Edward Dahlberg
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
VISUAL ARTISTS: EARLY TOURIST PHOTOGRAPHS
Dutch Scenes: A Portfolio of Early Twentieth-Century Tourist Photographs
WRITERS (3)
The Problem of Plot Summary in Blanchot's Fiction
Stendhal's Alter Ego: The Life of Henry Brulard
Maurice Blanchot Absent
A Farewell to Michel Butor
Michel Leiris's Fibrils, Volume 3 of The Rules of the Game
THE BIBLE, MEMORY, AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME
As I Was Reading
Meeting Abraham Lincoln
"Paring Off the Amphibologisms": Jesus Recovered by the Jesus Seminar
A Reading of the Shepherd's Psalm
Remember the Van Wagenens
Acknowledgments and Notes