The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Couverture rigide

Davis, Lydia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374270600 ISBN 13 : 9780374270605

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Davis Lydia

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

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)

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Davis's short stories are perfected economies, witty devices, precision-made, primed to release intelligence, philosophy, hilarity. They celebrate the thinking universe while they redefine the possibilities of the form. There is no other writer quite like her' Ali Smith Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American writing' and 'one of the great, strange American literary contributions'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374270600
• ISBN 13: 9780374270605
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 733
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible