Lydia Davis è un'acclamata scrittrice e traduttrice, rinomata per i suoi racconti straordinariamente brevi ma brillantemente inventivi. Il suo lavoro esplora come il linguaggio stesso possa catturare e come ciò che non viene detto possa mantenere l'interesse del lettore. Davis svela dettagli della vita fino ad ora invisibili, offrendo ai lettori nuove fonti di intuizione filosofica e bellezza. Il suo stile unico e il suo approccio alla forma hanno influenzato una generazione di scrittori che apprezzano la sua capacità di superare i confini della narrativa breve.
"Unsere Fremden" ist die neueste Short-Story-Sammlung von Lydia Davis, die ihre Genialität und Einzigartigkeit erneut beweist. Sie entdeckt die Überraschungen des Alltags und verwandelt sie in kurze Meisterwerke. Die Geschichten thematisieren Missverständnisse, komische Situationen und die fluiden Grenzen zwischen Fremden und Familie.
A brand new collection of short fiction from Lydia Davis, 'a trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker
"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 been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, representations of Jesus, early tourist photographs, and much more. Essays Two collects Davis's writings and talks on her second profession: the art of translation. The award-winning translator from the French reflects on her experience translating Proust. She also makes an extended visit to the French city of Arles, and writes about the varied adventures of learning Norwegian, Dutch, and Spanish through reading and translation. Davis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow and the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her fiction, here focuses her unique intelligence and idiosyncratic ways of understanding on the endlessly complex relations between languages. Together with Essays One, this provocative and delightful volume cements her status as one of our most original and beguiling writers"--Publisher's description
The Believer, a ten-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, a department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In each issue, readers will find journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an expansive comics section, poetry, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected bonus items. Our poetry section is curated by Jericho Brown, Kristen Radtke selects our comics, and Joshua Wolf Shenk is our editor-in-chief. Issues feature a column by Nick Hornby, in which he discusses the things he's been reading, as well as a comedy advice column.
Stories
Mit »Es ist, wie's ist« beweist Lydia Davis ihre große Meisterschaft in der kleinen Form. Sie betrachtet auf trocken-humorige und intelligente Art das, was zwischen uns und in uns selbst vorgehen kann. Auch noch so kleine Feinheiten und Details des Lebens entdeckt Davis und schenkt ihnen besondere Bedeutung. Eine Vielzahl an unterschiedlichsten Lebenssituationen und menschlichen Eigentümlichkeiten findet sich in den Stories, erzählt mit einem präzisen, klaren Blick: Alltagsspleens und -ängste, eben »ein paar Dinge, die mit mir nicht in Ordnung sind«; ein Kassensturz über eine beendete Beziehung; eine Mutter, die mit ihrer Tochter nie zufrieden ist; eine Kriminalgeschichte, die als Französischsprachkurs getarnt ist; das Rätsel, was es wirklich mit dem Brief eines Ex-Freundes auf sich hat; »Auszüge aus einem Leben«, die einen ganzen Lebensverlauf im Schnelldurchlauf erzählen – und so vieles mehr.
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 I: Reading and Writing, 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.
The narrative explores the harrowing experiences of a mother who confronts unimaginable trauma, including the betrayal of a partner and the violent realities of life intertwined with crime. It delves into themes of survival, faith, and redemption as the author reflects on her journey through personal hells, ultimately highlighting the transformative power of faith and divine intervention in overcoming life's darkest moments.
Die Erzähler Franzen und Foer sind die größten Bewunderer Lydia Davis‘, sie ist eine der originellsten Köpfe der amerikanischen Literatur. Die Meisterin der kurzen Form nimmt in ihren Erzählungen, die manchmal nur zwei Zeilen lang sind, witzig und ungeheuer klug die Abenteuer des Alltags in den Blick. Egal ob sie von Reisen, Essgewohnheiten oder verflossenen Männern erzählt, mit Davis ist man stets mitten im Leben - heiter, nachdenklich, praktisch und immer mit einem philosophischen Augenzwinkern.
The New York Times bestseller 'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' Independent The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become - a decade after her death - the writer everyone is talking about. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis. 'With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston and New York and quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners . . . The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates.' LRB, 1999
On the border of Scotland and England beginning in 1898, two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep--a battle which must end in death