Essays

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Sinopse

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.

Participantes

Autor: Lydia Davis

Autor

LYDIA DAVIS

Lydia Davis
Crítica literária, tradutora e escritora, a americana Lydia Davis nasceu em Northampton (Massachussetts) em 1947. Vencedora do Man Booker International 2013, seu nome tem sido associado à radical renovação da narrativa breve, com históricas que entre ficção, ensaio e poesia. Aclamada também pelas traduções de autores franceses como Foucault, Flaubert e Proust, a autora venceu o French-American Foundation Translation Prize de 2003 por sua tradução de No caminho de Swann. Davis publicou seis livros de contos e um romance, The end of history (2004). Seu mais recente título Tipos de perturbação (2013) foi indicado ao National Book Award.