Lydia Davis

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466801011
• Artikelnr.: 39957614

Autorenporträt

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.