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Can't And Won't by Lydia Davis
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. This title is the winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2013. Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories. Wit ...Show more
Essays Two by Lydia Davis
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust'(Ali Smith) Lydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction writing for the first time in 2019 with Essays. Now, she continues the project with Essays Two, focusing on the art of translation, the lea ...Show more
Letters to His Neighbor by Marcel Proust / Lydia Davis
19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In ...Show more
Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser (Author) , Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University) (Translated by) , Lydia Davis (Translated by) , Christopher Middleton (Translated by)
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and ...Show more
Lydia Davis - Essays by Lydia Davis
55.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control- wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as her critically acclaimed short fiction. Ranging across he ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American wri ...Show more
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, s ...Show more
The Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot; Lydia Davis (Translator)
8.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the ...Show more
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