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...

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...

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...

"Can't and Won't" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten der Autorin Lydia Davis. Das Buch enthält über vierzig Geschichten, die sich durch ihre Kürze, ihren Witz und ihre Originalität auszeichnen. Die Themen variieren stark und reichen...

"Samuel Johnson Is Indignant" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten der amerikanischen Autorin Lydia Davis, die für ihren prägnanten und unkonventionellen Stil bekannt ist. Die Geschichten in diesem Buch variieren stark in Länge und...

Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier...

Ein neuer Band von der Virtuosin der knappen Form - »Davis ist eine Magierin … Nur wenige Autor*innen können den Worten auf einer Seite so viel Bedeutung verleihen.« (Jonathan Franzen) Die vielfach preisgekrönte amerikanische Autorin...

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet...

Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier...

Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier...

"Fast keine Erinnerung: Stories" von Klaus Hoffer ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen, die sich durch eine subtile und oft melancholische Betrachtung des Alltags auszeichnen. Die Geschichten sind geprägt von Hoffers charakteristischem...

The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks-dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical...