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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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"Her passion for words and syntax charges her candid and probing inquiries into the cascading challenges and revelations of translation ..."
"A vivid portrait of the translating life ..."
"Davis's adventures in translation are full of such realizations, and the lessons they sustain are encouraging."
"This is a celebration of the beautiful and bewildering intermittences of language ..."
"Readers, in turn, are lucky to have this collection, a worthy addition to the Davis canon."
"Davis, in her fiction and in her criticism, proves a vivid disciple."
"The Proust essays, along with a pungent discussion of Flaubert, are the highlight of the collection ..."
"No, but Davis extracts endless thrills from the painstaking process."
"Her goal of staying as close as possible to the vocabulary of the original novels leads her far down the path of etymology, both in English and in French ..."
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