Lydia Davis: Essays One, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Essays One
- Publisher:
- Pan MacMillan, 11/2020
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250758156
- Item number:
- 9643893
- Volume:
- 528 Pages
- Weight:
- 532 g
- Format:
- 191 x 130 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 10.11.2020
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive."
Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis's gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One , Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades.
In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote's painting, and from the Shepherd's Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.
Biography
Lydia Davis, geboren 1947, bekannt vor allem durch ihre Short Stories, wurde mit dem Man Booker International Prize 2013 ausgezeichnet. Bekannt ist Lydia Davis zudem als Übersetzerin französischer Klassiker wie Marcel Proust und Gustave Flaubert. Hierfür wurde sie von Frankreich mit dem Orden eines "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres" ausgezeichnet. An der University of Albany ist Lydia Davis Professorin für Kreatives Schreiben.
