«Una obra única en la literatura americana que será considerada dentro de un tiempo como una de las mayores y más insólitas contribuciones a las letras norteamericanas», JAMES WOOD, The New YorkerLydia Davis ha sido...
"Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of context by reframing reading in the most particular and human terms."--David...
Endlich! "Unsere Fremden" ist die neueste, lang ersehnte Short-Story-Sammlung der US-Kultautorin. Die Einzigartigkeit und Genialität von Lydia Davis' Literatur wird einmal mehr aufs Eindrücklichste untermauert.
Ni puedo ni quiero es el libro de relatos más revolucionario escrito por un escritor norteamericano en los últimos 25 años. The Boston Globe Lydia Davis, una de las cuentistas contemporáneas más importantes...
Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the...
With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in this new collection illuminate particular...
'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize. Never did a book award deliver such a true match-winning punch. Best of all, a new audience will read her now and find her wit, her vigour and rigour, her funniness, her thoughtfulnes...
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...