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…mehr
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 ("A work of creation in its own right." -Claire Messud, Newsday), Madame Bovary ("[Flaubert's] masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves." -Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review), and Michel Leiris ("Magnificent." -Tim Watson, Public Books). 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.
Lydia Davis is the author of Essays One, a collection of essays on writing, reading, art, memory, and the Bible. She is also the author of The End of the Story: A Novel and many story collections, including Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction; Can't and Won't (2014); and The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, described by James Wood in The New Yorker as "a grand cumulative achievement." Davis is also the acclaimed translator of Swann's Way and Madame Bovary, both awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and of many other works of literature. She has been named both a Chevalier and an Officier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and in 2020 she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
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Preface ON TRANSLATION Twenty-One Pleasures of Translating (and a Silver Lining) PROUST Reading Proust for the First Time: A Blog Post Introduction to Swann's Way The Child as Writer: The "Steeples" Passage in Swann's Way Proust in His Bedroom: An Afterword to Proust's Letters to His Neighbor LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH Reading Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer TRANSLATING FROM ENGLISH INTO ENGLISH An Experiment in Modernizing Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Translating Bob, Son of Battle: The Last Gray Dog of Kenmuir From Memoir to Long Poem: Sidney Brooks's Our Village TRANSLATING PROUST Loaf or Hot-Water Bottle: Closely Translating Proust (Proust Talk I) Hammers and Hoofbeats: Rhythms and Syntactical Patterns in Proust's Swann's Way (Proust Talk II) An Alphabet (in Progress) of Proust Translation Observations, from Aurore to Zut LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: DUTCH Before My Morning Coffee: Translating the Very Short Stories of A. L. Snijders TRANSLATING MICHEL LEIRIS Over the Years: Notes on Translating Michel Leiris's The Rules of the Game AN EXCURSION INTO GASCON Translating a Gascon Folktale: The Language of Armagnac LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: TWO KINDS OF NORWEGIAN Learning Bokmål by Reading Dag Solstad's Telemark Novel Reading a Gunnhild Øyehaug Story in Nynorsk ON TRANSLATION AND MADAME BOVARY Buzzing, Humming, or Droning: Notes on Translation and Madame Bovary ONE FRENCH CITY The City of Arles
Preface ON TRANSLATION Twenty-One Pleasures of Translating (and a Silver Lining) PROUST Reading Proust for the First Time: A Blog Post Introduction to Swann's Way The Child as Writer: The "Steeples" Passage in Swann's Way Proust in His Bedroom: An Afterword to Proust's Letters to His Neighbor LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH Reading Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer TRANSLATING FROM ENGLISH INTO ENGLISH An Experiment in Modernizing Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Translating Bob, Son of Battle: The Last Gray Dog of Kenmuir From Memoir to Long Poem: Sidney Brooks's Our Village TRANSLATING PROUST Loaf or Hot-Water Bottle: Closely Translating Proust (Proust Talk I) Hammers and Hoofbeats: Rhythms and Syntactical Patterns in Proust's Swann's Way (Proust Talk II) An Alphabet (in Progress) of Proust Translation Observations, from Aurore to Zut LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: DUTCH Before My Morning Coffee: Translating the Very Short Stories of A. L. Snijders TRANSLATING MICHEL LEIRIS Over the Years: Notes on Translating Michel Leiris's The Rules of the Game AN EXCURSION INTO GASCON Translating a Gascon Folktale: The Language of Armagnac LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: TWO KINDS OF NORWEGIAN Learning Bokmål by Reading Dag Solstad's Telemark Novel Reading a Gunnhild Øyehaug Story in Nynorsk ON TRANSLATION AND MADAME BOVARY Buzzing, Humming, or Droning: Notes on Translation and Madame Bovary ONE FRENCH CITY The City of Arles
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