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Lädt ... Varieties of Disturbance: Stories (2007)von Lydia Davis
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 |   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. (  ) askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 | 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. ( ) askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 | 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. ( ) askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 |  ) feverell | May 19, 2020 |
 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. Ist enthalten inAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
"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). Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.71)
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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. (