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Lydia Davis
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’, this title features…
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A collection of short fiction that is written by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.
A brand new collection of short fiction from Lydia Davis, 'a trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker
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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…
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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…
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With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, the author seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with…
A crystalline collection of literary essays from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Can’t and Won’t.
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A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis
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A. L. Snijders
Brevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fiction
Marcel Proust
Now in a beautiful paperback edition, Proust's tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor, vividly translated by Lydia Davis
A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.
Robert Walser
A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art
This anthology offers a refined selection of short prose that Lydia Davis has taken to an admirable level of stylistic perfection. The stories range between one and three pages in…
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The Stripper: I thought I found my Prince Charming. But he turned out to be a child molester who raped my 9-year-old baby girl. The Drug Dealer: I thought life…
With her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail.
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis –
From one of the true originals of contemporary American short fiction ( San Francisco Chronicle ) comes this crystalline collection of investigations into the ways in which human being perceive…
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.
Lydia Davies
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.
Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these stories, Davis reveals…
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Jonathan Evans
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist.
The Many Voices of Lydia Davis’ shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist.
Lydia Davis (New Directions)
A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including A Small Story About a…
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Kasia Boddy
The short story is one of the most varied genres in American literature. This title brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present…
Lydia Davis,Alfred Ollivant
Alfred Ollivant’s Bob, Son of Battle is a classic tale from the borderlands between Scotland and England that has delighted generations of boys and girls.
Michel Butor,Lydia Davis
This book gathers French writer Michel Butor’s essays on his travel in the Mediterranean. Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an…
Rachael Jones
Max is a boy who enjoys playing with his friends, camping with his family, and going on adventures with his dog, Milo. Max also happens to have a rare disease…
Gustave Flaubert
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in…
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour
Elisabeth Badinter
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…
Michel Leiris
A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris’s masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century
The second volume of Michel Leiris’s hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis
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Lydia Davis,Eliot Weinberger
Part of our revived Poetry Pamphlet series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing found material.
Maurice Blanchot
This work takes the form of a conversation, an interview. An obsessive questioning back and forth builds up Blanchot’s narrative, with its sense–shared with Kafka’s famous doorkeeper parable–that behind each…
Pierre Jean Jouve
After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve’s work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between…
