A. L. Snijders

Night Train (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Davis, Lydia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Brevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fiction

Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extols Snijders's straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty and his thoughtfulness.
Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch, the stories gathered herehumorous, or bizarre, or comfortingly homelyare something like daybook entries, novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated from life, butinhabiting the borderland between fiction and realitymight best be described as autobiographical mini-fables.
This morning at 11:30, in the full sun, I go up into the hayloft where I haven't been for years. I climb over boxes and shelving, and open the door. A frightened owl flies straight at me, dead quiet, as quiet as a shadow can fly, I look into his eyeshe's a large owl, it's not strange that I'm frightened too, we frighten each other. I myself thought that owls never move in the daytime. What the owl thinks about me, I don't know.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811228572
• Artikelnr.: 62604182

Autorenporträt

A. L. Snijders was born in 1937 in Amsterdam. In 1971, he moved to Achterhoek, a quiet, wooded region in the east of the Netherlands where many of his animal stories are set. In 2006, his first collection of zkv's (zeer korte verhalen or very short storiesa term he invented) was published, bringing the writer quickly to public attention. Several collections followed, including the volume from which the present stories are taken, De Mol en andere dierenzkv's (The Mole and Other Very Short Animal Stories, AFdH, 2009). In November 2010, Snijders was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize, one of the three most important literary prizes in Holland, in recognition of his work as a whole and especially his zkv's. Snijders has by now written approximately 1,500 zkv's.