Лидия Дэвис – лучшие книги

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 необычайно талантлива и психологически достоверна, а в персонажах, при всей их нетривиальности, мы в глубине души угадываем себя.

Лидия Дэвис (р. 1947) — американская писательница, эссеистка, переводчица французской литературы, мастер коротких историй, лауреатка Международной Букеровской премии. В настоящем издании представлены рассказы из сборника «Не могу и не хочу» (Can’t and Won’t, 2014).

Проза Лидии Дэвис далеко заходит в остранении: знакомые и банальные предметы, живые существа и сам язык как конструктор текста пристально рассматриваются, расщепляются и пересобираются. Действительность, собранная из строительных кирпичиков слов и понятий, абсурдна и ирреальна, оборачиваясь сном или перетекая в текст, записанный ироничным наблюдателем — самой Дэвис.

Роман лауреата Международной Букеровской премии (2013) американки Лидии Дэвис – как бы два в одном, если прибегнуть к рекламной формулировке. Это история любви молодого человека и зрелой женщины, и история написания романа об этой любви, поскольку героиня – писательница.

Can't and Won't

The End of the Story

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 I, 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.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, deft, and inventive; Lydia Davis' newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis' sincere love and mastery of the form.

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

'Among my most favourite writers. Read her now!' A. M. Homes

The visionary, fearless Lydia Davis presents a dazzling collection of essays on reading and writing, exploring the full scope of possibility within existing forms of literature and considering how we might challenge and reinvent these forms.

Through Thomas Pynchon, Michel Leiris, Maurice Blanchot, Lucia Berlin, Joan Mitchell and others, he author considers her many creative influences. And, through these lenses, she returns to her own writing process, her relationship to language and the written word. Beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating, these pieces are a masterclass in reading and writing.

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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 Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends.
What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.

Este libro surgi? con bastante naturalidad: pens? que era hora de recopilar los textos de no ficci?n que hab?a tenido la oportunidad de escribir a lo largo de las d?cadas y reunirlos en un solo volumen. Como no eran para nada escasos, tuve que decidir si hacer un solo tomo, grueso, o dos m?s razonables. Ped? opiniones y cont? votos, sopes? los pros y los contras, y, al final, me decid? por hacer dos. As? reflejar?a, en cierta medida, dos de las ocupaciones principales de mi vida: la escritura y la traducci?n. Este es el primer tomo.

En este libro, Lydia Davis recuerda a los escritores que influyeron tempranamente en su escritura, declara cu?les son sus cinco cuentos favoritos y analiza la obra de aquellos que la interpelaron, por diferentes motivos, a lo largo de los a?os: Lucia Berlin, Gustave Flaubert, Rae Armantrout, Jane Bowles, entre otros. Tambi?n se detiene en las artes visuales, y reflexiona sobre la obra de Joan Mitchell y de Alan Cote e indaga en las primeras fotograf?as de viajes. Finalmente, con absoluta generosidad, aborda la escritura desde su propia pr?ctica: as? comparte diferentes versiones de un mismo texto y elabora un ensayo imprescindible con treinta recomendaciones para una buena rutina de escritura.
"Aguda, h?bil, ir?nica, sobria y constantemente sorprendente". Joyce Carol Oates
"Una escritora atrevida, excitantemente inteligente y, a menudo, muy divertida". Ali Smith