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Ladataan... Varieties of Disturbance: Stories (2007)Tekijä: Lydia Davis
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Another go at finishing books from the spring semester... Lydia Davis is like nothing I've ever read before. In the just over 4 months since I began reading excerpts of this collection of her short fictions, I've gone back and forth over whether I love or hate her style, whether I find the brutal economy and utter truth of her prose fantastic or too jarring. She takes the most ordinary moments of life and makes them into the most literary bits of prose. The fascination of her prose is not the characters, who are so very clearly flawed humans, or the plots, which often don't even really exist, but rather the force of her unique project and unique language. One of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read. Recommend. Another go at finishing books from the spring semester... Lydia Davis is like nothing I've ever read before. In the just over 4 months since I began reading excerpts of this collection of her short fictions, I've gone back and forth over whether I love or hate her style, whether I find the brutal economy and utter truth of her prose fantastic or too jarring. She takes the most ordinary moments of life and makes them into the most literary bits of prose. The fascination of her prose is not the characters, who are so very clearly flawed humans, or the plots, which often don't even really exist, but rather the force of her unique project and unique language. One of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read. Recommend. Another go at finishing books from the spring semester... Lydia Davis is like nothing I've ever read before. In the just over 4 months since I began reading excerpts of this collection of her short fictions, I've gone back and forth over whether I love or hate her style, whether I find the brutal economy and utter truth of her prose fantastic or too jarring. She takes the most ordinary moments of life and makes them into the most literary bits of prose. The fascination of her prose is not the characters, who are so very clearly flawed humans, or the plots, which often don't even really exist, but rather the force of her unique project and unique language. One of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read. Recommend.
It’s inspiring to watch Davis map out knotty ruminations without devolving into tongue-tied panic. Her stories are also deeply funny, though not in a willful way. Eschewing one-liners, Davis creates humor by making distressing topics collide with matter-of-fact, vaguely fascinated tones. It’s as if her characters were rubbernecking while cruising past the pileups of their own obsessions. Sisältyy tähän:
"In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go to save the life of a caterpillar, proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, probes the limits of marital fidelity, and unlocks the secret to a long and happy life"--Publisher website (November 2007). Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Lydia Davis is like nothing I've ever read before. In the just over 4 months since I began reading excerpts of this collection of her short fictions, I've gone back and forth over whether I love or hate her style, whether I find the brutal economy and utter truth of her prose fantastic or too jarring. She takes the most ordinary moments of life and makes them into the most literary bits of prose. The fascination of her prose is not the characters, who are so very clearly flawed humans, or the plots, which often don't even really exist, but rather the force of her unique project and unique language.
One of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read. Recommend. ( )