Böcker av Lydia Davis

Vad är egentligen en granne - är det en främling, vän eller fiende? Begreppet väcker funderingar kring integritet och civilkurage, men det berör även ämnen som gemenskap, utanförskap och gränser. Hur förhåller vi oss till våra grannar? I Novellix ...

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In her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. No two of these fictions are alike, yet Davis rearranges readers' view of the world by looking beyond pre...

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Following her acclaimed translation of "Swann s Way," Lydia Davis offers a partial alphabet of Proust translation problems and their solutions. She muses on the near-impossibility of summarizing works by Maurice Blanchot, and ends with a...

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Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control: wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as ...

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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 reason and cl...

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013. 'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize. Never ...

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"Under all den här smutsen är golvet faktiskt väldigt rent." I gränslandet mellan noveller och poesi har Lydia Davis mutat in en helt egen plats, och anses i dag som en av giganterna i USA. Vissa av hennes berättelser består av en enda r...

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The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by...

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"Under all den här smutsen är golvet faktiskt väldigt rent." I gränslandet mellan noveller och poesi har Lydia Davis mutat in en helt egen plats, och anses i dag som en av giganterna i USA. Vissa av hennes berättelser består av en enda r...

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Lydia was 19 years old and enjoying university with a loving family and great friends when she became anorexic. The doctors told her that she would die.This is Lydia's account of what anorexia did to her, how it changed her and how it impacted on ...

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anyth...

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Blackstone's Employment Law Practice 2019 is the only text to provide everything you need for bringing, defending, and appealing employment cases in one single, portable volume, providing an unbeatable combination of clear commentary and key legis...

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The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013. 'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but b...

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From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion 'She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Am...

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Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventi...

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Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013 Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inven...

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From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion 'Among my most favourite writers. Read her now!' A. M. Homes ...

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Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair...

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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,&q...

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A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonat...

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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 reason and c...

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A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "e;the best prose stylist in America"e;Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "e;Bloomington"e; reads, "e;Now that I have been here for a li...

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"e;I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized....

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A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia DavisLydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "e;a magician of self-consciousness,&q...

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Raised by parents who came of age in the sixties and went on to achieve worldwide fame, Louise has survived their celebrity, their turbulent marriage, and the divorce that left her in the care of her devoted father and on the periphery of her moth...

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Set in Switzerland during the early twentieth century, The Desert World focuses on the troubled relationships uniting three remarkable characters: Jacques de Todi, the homosexual son of a pastor; Luc Pascal, a French poet; and Baladine Nikolaievna...

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This book gathers French writer Michel Butor's essays on his travel in the Mediterranean. Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an extended essay on Egypt-where, when he was 24, Butor spe...

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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along ...

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