Lydia Davis: Essays Two, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Essays Two
Buch
- On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages and the City of Arles
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- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 07/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405992657
- Item number:
- 12569673
- Volume:
- 592 Pages
- Weight:
- 500 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 2.7.2026
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Blurb
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.
'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi
'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 withEssays . Now, she continues the project with Essays Two , focusing on the art of translation, the learning of foreign languages through reading, and her experience of translating, amongst others, Flaubert and Proust, about whom she writes with an unmatched understanding of the nuances of their styles.
Every essay in this book is a revelation.
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.
Lydia Davis
Essays Two
Current price: EUR 13.16
