Лидия Дэвис

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 clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Fr...

Проза Лидии Дэвис совершенно не укладывается в привычные рамки и кому-то может показаться причудливой или экстравагантной. Порой ее рассказы лишены сюжета, а иногда и вовсе представляют собой литературные миниатюры, состоящие лишь из нескольких фраз. Однако как бы эксцентрична ни была форма, которую Дэвис выбирает для своих произведений, и какими бы странными ни выглядели ее персонажи, проза эта н...

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 into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspec...

The End of the Story

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times - Los Angeles Times - The Boston Globe Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a S...

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 clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Fr...

Проза Лидии Дэвис совершенно не укладывается в привычные рамки и кому-то может показаться причудливой или экстравагантной. Порой ее рассказы лишены сюжета, а иногда и вовсе представляют собой литературные миниатюры, состоящие лишь из нескольких фраз. Однако как бы эксцентрична ни была форма, которую Дэвис выбирает для своих произведений, и какими бы странными ни выглядели ее персонажи, проза эта н...

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 into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspec...

The End of the Story