Lydia Davis

Varieties of Disturbance (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A National Book Award finalist, this collection of "whimsical, seemingly eventless [short stories] . . . gain momentum as tiny epics of paranoia and ennui" ( The New Yorker ).

"Davis is a magician of self-consciousness. Few writers now working make the words on the page matter more." ¿Jonathan Franzen

"Davis is the kind of writer about whom you say: 'Oh, at last!'" ¿Grace Paley

Fifty-seven rule-breaking short stories, in which Lydia Davis proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, gets lost in a foreign city, and addresses common anxieties regarding etiquette, work, taste, the fourth grade, death, and conversation.

No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise.

"Davis's work defies categorization and possesses a moving, austere elegance." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466806276
• Artikelnr.: 39413120

Autorenporträt

LYDIA DAVIS is the author of one novel and five story collections, 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.