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A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a selection of her essays for the first time in 2019 with Essays One. Now, Davis continues her non-fiction project with Essays Two. This edition will, for the first time, collect Lydia Davis's essays and talks on the art of translation, the experience of translating Proust, Flaubert and Michel Leiris, learning a foreign language through reading, and an extended immersion in the city of Arles. Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her fiction and finalist for the National Book Award, showcases her sharp literary mind and invaluable insight in this new collection of her nonfiction works.
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"As a translator, Davis is known for fidelity, clarity, and, in the case of Proust, decluttering ..."
"Her passion for words and syntax charges her candid and probing inquiries into the cascading challenges and revelations of translation ..."
"Davis is a literary treasure."
"It finds its most persuasive expression in a wonderful essay about a version of the gospels produced by a group called the 'Jesus Seminar', which includes a fifth gospel created in a scrapbook by Thomas Jefferson, who cut and pasted the few verses of scripture in which he had most faith ..."
"This gets to the wonderful paradox of Davis as a translator, who finds a comfortable mode for thrilling mystery, for language far from home."
"For those wondering what translators do and how they do it, this collection is a must."
"The Proust essays, along with a pungent discussion of Flaubert, are the highlight of the collection ..."
"whatever the topic, Davis is always superb company: erudite, adventurous, surprising ..."
"Riveting and erudite ..."
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