The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis, acclaimed fiction writer and translator, is famous in literary circles for her extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. In fall 2003 she received one of 25 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” awards. In granting the award the MacArthur Foundation praised Davis’s work for showing “how language itself can entertain, how all that what one word says, and leaves unsaid, can hold a reader’s interest. . . . Davis grants readers a glimpse of life’s previously invisible details, revealing new sources of philosophical insights and beauty.” In 2013 She was the winner of the Man Booker International prize.Davis’s recent collection, “Varieties of Disturbance” (May 2007), was featured on the front cover of the “Los Angeles Times Book Review” and garnered a starred review from “Publishers Weekly.” Her “Samuel Johnson Is Indignant” (2001) was praised by “Elle” magazine for its “Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories, bound by visionary, philosophical, comic prose—part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis.”Davis is also a celebrated translator of French literature into English. The French government named her a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her fiction and her distinguished translations of works by Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Jean Jouve, Michel Butor and others.Davis recently published a new translation (the first in more than 80 years) of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, “Swann’s Way” (2003), the first volume of Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” A story of childhood and sexual jealousy set in fin de siecle France, “Swann’s Way” is widely regarded as one of the most important literary works of the 20th century.The “Sunday Telegraph” (London) called the new translation “A triumph [that] will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.” Writing for the “Irish Times,” Frank Wynne said, “What soars in this new version is the simplicity of language and fidelity to the cambers of Proust’s prose… Davis’ translation is magnificent, precise.”Davis’s previous works include “Almost No Memory” (stories, 1997), “The End of the Story” (novel, 1995), “Break It Down” (stories, 1986), “Story and Other Stories” (1983), and “The Thirteenth Woman” (stories, 1976).Grace Paley wrote of “Almost No Memory” that Lydia Davis is the kind of writer who “makes you say, ‘Oh, at last!’—brains, language, energy, a playfulness with form, and what appears to be a generous nature.” The collection was chosen as one of the “25 Favorite Books of 1997” by the “Voice Literary Supplement” and one of the “100 Best Books of 1997” by the “Los Angeles Times.”Davis first received serious critical attention for her collection of stories, “Break It Down,” which was selected as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. The book’s positive critical reception helped Davis win a prestigious Whiting Writer’s Award in 1988.She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY.Davis is considered hugely influential by a generation of writers including Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, who once wrote that she "blows the roof off of so many of our assumptions about what constitutes short fiction."

出版者:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

作者:Lydia Davis

页数:752

出版时间:2009-9-29

价格:USD 30.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780374270605

图书标签:LydiaDavis小说文学外国文学英语英文原版Lydia.DavisFiction

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven 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 of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust.

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National book Award finalist Varieties of Disturbance.

读后感

我承认:在读过罗伯格里耶之后，再没读到这么令人兴奋、惊讶，甚至目瞪口呆的小说了。 戴维斯真的可以称为一位美国小说家吗?难道她不是走在法语文学的传统上，与其将其与海明威、卡佛等摆在一起，还不如去细细分析下她与格里耶、西蒙、贝克特、布朗肖或图森等人在小说创作上的...  

今年给我启示最深的应该是 Lydia Davis 了；即，身为写作者，在关注生活中琐碎无趣的主题时，可以如何控制内容和形式的距离，去规避无趣和庸俗。因此，Lydia Davis 不仅仅是《包法利夫人》的英译者，她也传承了福楼拜的写作方式；虽说 20 世纪以来，大多数作家免不了要受到福楼...  

小的大作家 瓦当 有经验的读者一定不难看出，来自美国的布克国际奖得主莉迪亚•戴维斯更像是一位欧洲小说家。如果美国文学指的是马克•吐温、海明威、菲茨杰拉德、福克纳……或者是她的前夫畅销小说家保罗•奥斯特的话。确切地说，戴维斯更像一位德语小说家，比如卡夫卡...  

读这本小说的感觉，是触到了什么却又抓不住什么。像一只轻柔的手拂过心头，痒痒的，又抓不住这只作恶的手。 有很长很绕的句子，在刚有点清晰一点的体会时，这一绕，好，又不知思绪被揉搓成什么样子了。 刚开始很是诧异，为何这本小说有如此高的豆瓣评分，最初也是...  

《几乎没有记忆》 我不知道怎么写超过两百字的评论，不会组织架构，说出来的也只不过是空洞的东西。看到别人写的东西，我想，哦原来是这样，哦这样就可以了，可轮到我的时候我还是绞不出脑汁。 于是看完几乎没有记忆的时候也是这样的感觉，我好喜欢，我想把它推荐给谁，可是怎...  

用户评价

看了小半本，发现原文好简单好简单（相比佶屈聱牙的译文而言），其实内容很轻浅，单纯只是在媚雅层面滑行，值得一提的只剩下形式够炫而已。

看了小半本，发现原文好简单好简单（相比佶屈聱牙的译文而言），其实内容很轻浅，单纯只是在媚雅层面滑行，值得一提的只剩下形式够炫而已。

其实就是英文版的简短私小说 基本是第一人称或者第三人称的心理旁白和描述 第一次读到用高中英文单词可以写出大学四级阅读理解 作者属于玩耍文字的高手 可惜没有核的小说文字再妙也不觉得好

很适合在衣着颜色沉闷时拿在手上当装饰品。但内容真的读多了反胃，有种强作聪明的矫情感。

i love this woman's writing...