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Can't And Won't by Lydia Davis
Category: Fiction
Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. This title is the 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. Wit ...Show more
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
Category: Fiction
Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. 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 M ...Show more
Essays Two by Lydia Davis
Category: Languages and Reference
'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 lea ...Show more
Essays Two - On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles (US H/B) by Lydia Davis
Category: Languages and Reference
A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" ...Show more
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (Translator)
Category: Biography
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 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 ...Show more
Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser (Author) , Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University) (Translated by) , Lydia Davis (Translated by) , Christopher Middleton (Translated by)
Category: Art and Design
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 ...Show more
Lydia Davis - Essays by Lydia Davis
Category: Languages and Reference
Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control- wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as her critically acclaimed short fiction. Ranging across he ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
Category: Fiction
A brand new collection of short fiction from Lydia Davis, 'a trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time #1) Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (trans.)
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust's "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 Proust's master ...Show more