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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...
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 I: Reading and Writing, 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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Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven 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 describ...
Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven 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.
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- Generally I resist the label “experimental,” which people sometimes reflexively apply to any nontraditional form of fiction or poetry, or to any form that puzzles them, that seems odd or strange. To me, “experimental” implies that the writer had a plan to test some preconceived writing strategy and see if it would work; that what resulted might or might not prove anything, and might or might not be successful. It seems to me both preplanned, deliberate, conceptual, and at the same time rather tentative. (查看原文)
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具体、细致，和她搞翻译一样认真。读到后半册，愈发觉得她的创作与阅读完全是一体两面的行为，也愈发理解Lydia Davis的小说形态。两册下来她在我心中完全成了一个好奇心极其旺盛的学习者，而且非常享受一个人钻研的乐趣。这本收文较杂，艺术家、林肯几篇略读，谈奇奇怪怪短篇小说/诗歌的部分最有趣味；想读伯恩哈德的短篇。 「i shouldn’t have started these red wool mi... 具体、细致，和她搞翻译一样认真。读到后半册，愈发觉得她的创作与阅读完全是一体两面的行为，也愈发理解Lydia Davis的小说形态。两册下来她在我心中完全成了一个好奇心极其旺盛的学习者，而且非常享受一个人钻研的乐趣。这本收文较杂，艺术家、林肯几篇略读，谈奇奇怪怪短篇小说/诗歌的部分最有趣味；想读伯恩哈德的短篇。 「i shouldn’t have started these red wool mittens. they’re done now, but my life is over.」 (展开)