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Oct 14, 2023 · All my life I have tried to do a little more than is really possible to do well, and that has at times led to confusion, or haste, or sacrifice. So what I might have done differently is not try ...
Oct 3, 2023 · Lydia Davis is a sly miniaturist whose distinct blend of personal reflection, flash fiction, and poetic concision serve up little epiphanies in shot glass-sized portions.
Jun 27, 2024 · Lydia Davis’ story ‘Marie Curie, So Honorable Woman’ problematises the border between translation and other forms of intertextual writing, especially parody, and therefore also the border between author and translator in Davis’ oeuvre. As we saw, this border was already questioned by Davis’ use of extracts from her translation of Proust in one of her stories (Chapter 4) and by her use of translations from Flaubert's letters as her stories from Flaubert (Chapter 5).
Mar 29, 2011 · Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence. The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is ...
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Jul 1, 1997 · Lydia Davis. July 1, 1997. Lydia Davis. Photo by Jerry Bauer. Courtesy of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. This interview is featured, along with thirty-four others, in our anthology BOMB: The Author Interviews. I was a fan of Lydia Davis’s work for a long time before we became friends. Precise and meticulous yet impassioned and obsessive, intense ...
