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Essays

Autor Lydia Davis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2019
From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author ofCan't and Won'tandThe 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241371473
ISBN-10: 0241371473
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 138 x 205 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Hamish Hamilton
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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 a Chevalier 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.


Recenzii

masterful, lucidcollection. . . no single piece could capture the essence of this extraordinary writer . . . Read these essays:see everything around you in a clear, fresh light
The unclassifiable writer and translator's collected nonfiction shows usa brilliant mind at work.
thebelovedAmerican author reflects on reading and writing in typicallyfunny, incisive and tenderstyle.
Davis does for the essay what one of her subjects-Rimbaud-did for the prose poem:fires language with emotive, radiant wisdom.

Descriere

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.