EAN: 9780241554654

ESSAYS TWO - LYDIA DAVIS GEBUNDEN

Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.   
'Precise  concentrated  lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis  and everyone should read her'
Hanif Kureishi   '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 learning of foreign languages through reading  and her
experience of translating  amongst others  Flaubert and Proust  about whom she writes with an
unmatched understanding of the nuances of their styles.  Every essay in this book is a
revelation.

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