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  • Formaat: Hardback, 528 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 196x140x43 mm, kaal: 590 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN-10: 0374148856
  • ISBN-13: 9780374148850
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 528 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 196x140x43 mm, kaal: 590 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN-10: 0374148856
  • ISBN-13: 9780374148850
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The award-winning author of Varieties of Disturbance presents a selection of essays, commentaries and lectures on the art of reading and writing, exploring subjects ranging from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to the paintings of Alan Cote. Illustrations.

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,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive.”

Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades.

In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote’s painting, and from the Shepherd’s Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.

Preface ix
The Practice Of Writing
A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked: Forms and Influences I
3(25)
Commentary on One Very Short Story ("In a House Besieged")
28(3)
From Raw Material to Finished Work: Forms and Influences II
31(33)
A Note on the Word Gubernatorial
64(5)
Visual Artists: Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell and Les Bluets, 1973
69(8)
Writers
John Ashbery's Translation of Rimbaud's Illuminations
77(8)
Young Pynchon
85(5)
The Story Is the Thing: Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women
90(14)
A Close Look at Two Books by Rae Armantrout
104(17)
Small but Perfectly Formed: Five Favorite Short Stories
121(4)
Visual Artists: Joseph Cornell
The Impetus Was Delight: A Response by Analogy to the Work of Joseph Cornell
125(16)
The Practice Of Writing (2)
Sources, Revision, Order, and Endings: Forms and Influences III
141(28)
Revising One Sentence
169(8)
Found Material, Syntax, Brevity, and the Beauty of Awkward Prose: Forms and Influences IV
177(27)
Fragmentary or Unfinished: Barthes, Joubert, Holderlin, Mallarme, Flaubert
204(22)
Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits
226(39)
Visual Artists: Alan Cote
Energy in Color: Alan Cote's Recent Paintings
265(16)
Writers (2)
"Emmy Moore's Journal"
281(4)
Jane Bowles
Osama Alomar's Very Short Tales in Fullblood Arabian
285(6)
Haunting the Flea Market: Roger Lewinter's The Attraction of Things
291(5)
Red Mittens: Anselm Hollo's Translation from the Cheremiss
296(4)
In Search of Difficult Edward Dahlberg
300(21)
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
321(24)
Visual Artists: Early Tourist Photographs
Dutch Scenes: A Portfolio of Early Twentieth-Century Tourist Photographs
345(22)
Writers (3)
The Problem of Plot Summary in Blanchot's Fiction
367(4)
Stendhal's Alter Ego: The Life of Henry Brulard
371(9)
Maurice Blanchot Absent
380(5)
A Farewell to Michel Butor
385(6)
Michel Leiris's Fibrils, Volume 3 of The Rules of the Game
391(14)
The Bible, Memory, And The Passage Of Time
As I Was Reading
405(20)
Meeting Abraham Lincoln
425(18)
"Paring Off the Amphibologisms": Jesus Recovered by the Jesus Seminar
443(21)
A Reading of the Shepherd's Psalm
464(11)
Remember the Van Wagenens
475(28)
Acknowledgments and Notes 503