Varieties of Disturbance

ISBN-13: 9780374281731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str.

L. Davis

Opis

Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking."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.No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise.Varieties of Disturbance is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

O autorze

Lydia Davis, geboren 1947, bekannt vor allem durch ihre Short Stories, wurde mit dem Man Booker International Prize 2013 ausgezeichnet. Bekannt ist Lydia Davis zudem als Übersetzerin französischer Klassiker wie Marcel Proust und Gustave Flaubert. Hierfür wurde sie von Frankreich mit dem Orden eines "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres" ausgezeichnet. An der University of Albany ist Lydia Davis Professorin für Kreatives Schreiben. 2013 erhielt sie den Man Booker International Prize.