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Our Strangers - Stories
Lydia Davis
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Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes,
an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of
the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to
organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With
compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to
determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but
we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of
memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be
fiction.
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Our Strangers (Main)
Lydia Davis
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'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker Lydia
Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual,
inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for
inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and
misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white
butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as
an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of
Davis's keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family
like strangers. Our Strangers is a fascinating collection that
confirms the genius of a writer whose every attention is
transformative.
The Believer, a ten-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a
bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the
Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, a
department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In each issue,
readers will find journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an
expansive comics section, poetry, and on occasion, delightful and
unexpected bonus items. Our poetry section is curated by Jericho
Brown, Kristen Radtke selects our comics, and Joshua Wolf Shenk is
our editor-in-chief. Issues feature a column by Nick Hornby, in
which he discusses the things he's been reading, as well as a
comedy advice column.
Lydia was 19 years old and enjoying university with a loving family
and great friends when she became anorexic. The doctors told her
that she would die. This is Lydia's account of what anorexia did to
her, how it changed her and how it impacted on her family, friends
and all her choices in life. Her story is told through letters and
blogs that Lydia wrote at the best and worst of times, notes from
her parent s and friends desperately trying to find a way through
to her and doctors notes with the horrific exacting details. Lydia
is now 23 and 'recovering'. She strongly believes that recovery is
possible, and feels she is almost there. She wrote her book to
explain her deepest thoughts and to explain the painful mental
torture that she endured and overcame. And she wrote it in the hope
that others suffering would relate to it, and that other families
watching their loved ones will be touched and understand more
deeply how an eating disorder really feels.
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from
Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an
elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives
Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs
lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but
all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs. Written by
Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this
precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a
Paris building, as seen through Proust's eyes. You'll read of the
effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the
sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and
writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between
two lonely souls. 'Delightful. Big news for Proustians' Daily
Telegraph 'If you have suffered from noisy neighbours, you will
sympathize with Marcel Proust' Times Literary Supplement 'A
haunting portrait of a friendship between two people who lived
within earshot of one another, separated only by a few inches of
plaster and floorboard, but who scarcely ever met' New Statesman
Marcel Proustas "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the most
entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the
finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original
prewar translation there has been no completely new version in
English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proustas masterpiece to new
audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davisas
internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, "Swannas
Way."
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Looking at Pictures (Hardcover)
Robert Walser; Translated by Susan Bernofsky, Lydia Davis, Christopher Middleton
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A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art
reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of
the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays
consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard,
Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics
such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well
as the differences between painters and poets. Every piece is
marked by Walser's unique eye, his delicate sensitivity, and his
very particular sensibilities-and all are touched by his magic
screwball wit.
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of
short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis. WINNER OF THE
MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013. 'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis
has won the Man Booker International prize. Never did a book award
deliver such a true match-winning punch. Best of all, a new
audience will read her now and find her wit, her vigour and rigour,
her funniness, her thoughtfulness, and the precision of form, which
mark Davis out as unique. Daring, excitingly intelligent and often
wildly comic [she] reminds you, in a world that likes to bandy its
words about, what words such as economy, precision and originality
really mean. This is a writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as
Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust. A
two-liner from Davis, or a seemingly throwaway paragraph, will
haunt. What looks like a game will open to deep seriousness; what
looks like philosophy will reveal playfulness, tragicomedy,
ordinariness; what looks like ordinariness will ask you to look
again at Davis's writing. In its acuteness, it always asks
attentiveness, and it repays this by opening up to its reader like
possibility, or like a bush covered in flowerheads. She's a joy.
There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'What stories. Precise
and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything
you've ever read' Metro 'I loved these stories. They are so
well-written, with such clarity of thought and precision of
language. Excellent' William Leith, Evening Standard 'Remarkable.
Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, children - of
recent years. To read Collected Stories is to be reminded of the
grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A
writer of vast intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday
'A body of work probably unique in American writing, in its
combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality,
sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure and
human wisdom' New Yorker 'Davis is a high priestess of the
startling, telling detail. She can make the most ordinary things,
such as couples talking, or someone watching television, bizarre,
almost mythical. I felt I had encountered a most original and
daring mind' Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph Lydia Davis is the author
of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which
was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the
recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of
the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her
fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice
Blanchot, Michel Leiris and Marcel Proust.
Davis has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story
form" ("Salon"). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are
collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking "Break It Down
"(1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee, "Varieties of
Disturbance."
Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the
greatest short story writers alive. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013 Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed
for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her
sparkling stories. With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis',
'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a
Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in
this new collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives
and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising. Above
all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints
of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched
precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary
writers on the international stage. Praise for Lydia Davis: 'What
stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are
unlike anything you've ever read' Metro 'To read The Collected
Stories of Lydia Davis is to be reminded of the grand, echoing
mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast
intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday 'Among my most
favourite writers. Read her now!' A. M. Homes Lydia Davis is the
author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story
collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007
National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship
and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the
French government for her fiction and her translations of modern
writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the
Man Booker International Prize in 2013.
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Mother! Origin of Life (Hardcover)
Laerke Rydal Jorgensen, Kirsten Degel, Marie Laurberg; Foreword by Poul Erik Tojner; Text written by Hans Christian Andersen, …
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The Way by Swann’s is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. It contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann’s, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age – satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition.
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Night Train (Paperback)
A. L. Snijders; Translated by Lydia Davis
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Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A.
L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of
travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is
their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction
delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of
translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extols
Snijders's "straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty
and his thoughtfulness." Selected from many hundreds in the
original Dutch, the stories gathered here-humorous, or bizarre, or
comfortingly homely-are something like daybook entries,
novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated
from life, but-inhabiting the borderland between fiction and
reality-might best be described as autobiographical mini-fables.
This morning at 11:30, in the full sun, I go up into the hayloft
where I haven't been for years. I climb over boxes and shelving,
and open the door. A frightened owl flies straight at me, dead
quiet, as quiet as a shadow can fly, I look into his eyes-he's a
large owl, it's not strange that I'm frightened too, we frighten
each other. I myself thought that owls never move in the daytime.
What the owl thinks about me, I don't know.
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Essays Two (Hardcover)
Lydia Davis
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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.
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. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction."
The must-have deluxe edition of the fantastically acclaimed new
translation of one of the world's most celebrated novels.
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but
bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks
on two disappointing affairs in an effort to make her life
everything she believes it should be. Soon heartbroken and crippled
by debts, she takes drastic action, with tragic consequences for
her husband and daughter. In this landmark new translation of
Gustave Flaubert's masterwork, award-winning writer and translator
Lydia Davis honors the nuances and particulars of Flaubert's
legendary prose style, giving new life in English to the book that
redefined the novel as an art form.
Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from
cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from
flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need
new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the
expression of male vulnerability, a psychic space that would accept
attitudes and behaviors traditionally labeled as "feminine." This
new model, Badinter argues, may reduce the profound effects of
homophobia and misogyny.
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Fullblood Arabian (Paperback)
Osama Alomar; Translated by C J Collins; Preface by Lydia Davis
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A prominent practitioner of the Arabic "very short story" (al-qisa
al-qasira jiddan), Osama Alomar's poetic fictions embody the wisdom
of Kahlil Gibran filtered through the violent gray absurdity of
Assad's police state. Fullblood Arabian is the first publication of
Alomar's strange, often humorously satirical allegories, where good
and evil battle with indifference, avarice, and compassion using
striking imagery and effervescent language.
The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker
International Prize 2013. 'It surprised me, over and over, to find
that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him.
He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by the time I turned
thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore.' Mislabelled
boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstacles in
the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she
organises her memories of a love affair into a novel. With
compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, she seeks to
determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but
we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of
memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be
fiction Back in print at last, this is Lydia Davis's first - and so
far only - novel. 'Extraordinary' Newsday 'Brilliant' New Yorker
'Breathtakingly elegant' Details 'Beautifully written' Marie Claire
'Astonishing' Elle Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories,
one novel and six short story collections, most recently Can't and
Won't. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named
an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French
government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers,
including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man
Booker International Prize in 2013.
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Essays (Hardcover)
Lydia Davis
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From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and
Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of
literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion 'She's a
joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my most
favourite writers. Read her now!' A. M. Homes The visionary,
fearless Lydia Davis presents a dazzling collection of essays on
reading and writing, exploring the full scope of possibility within
existing forms of literature and considering how we might challenge
and reinvent these forms. Through Thomas Pynchon, Michel Leiris,
Maurice Blanchot, Lucia Berlin, Joan Mitchell and others, he author
considers her many creative influences. And, through these lenses,
she returns to her own writing process, her relationship to
language and the written word. Beautifully formed,
thought-provoking, playful and illuminating, these pieces are a
masterclass in reading and writing.
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The White Review No.30 (Paperback)
Francesca Wade; Can Xue, Kristin Omarsdottir, Laura Grace Ford, Jessica Yu, …
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