En alkoholisert mor kjemper for å greie å sende ungene sine på skolen om morgenen. Fattige, unge jenter drar i desperasjon over grensen til Mexico for å få utført ulovlig abort. En eldre kvinne gir bort husnøkkelen sin til en fremmed - i tilfelle hun skulle falle død om. Vaskedamer låser seg inn hos familier som ikke ser dem. Med skarphet, humor og genuin empati skildrer Lucia Berlin fattigdom og uvitenhet, arbeid og misbruk, menneskelighet og kjærlighet, hverdagsgleder og overlevelse. Hun kan som få andre lede leseren fram til glimt av skjønnhet - på myntvaskeriet og i brennevinssjappa, hos strevende alenemødre og slitne alkoholikere. Med forord av Lydia Davis. KÅRET TIL EN AV ÅRETS TI BESTE BØKER I 2015 I THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013.'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 thoughtfulness, and the precision of form, which mark Davis out as unique.Daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic [she] reminds you, in a world that likes to bandy its words about, what words such as economy, precision and originality really mean. This is a writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust. A two-liner from Davis, or a seemingly throwaway paragraph, will haunt. What looks like a game will open to deep seriousness; what looks like philosophy will reveal playfulness, tragicomedy, ordinariness; what looks like ordinariness will ask you to look again at Davis's writing. In its acuteness, it always asks attentiveness, and it repays this by opening up to its reader like possibility, or like a bush covered in flowerheads.She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' Metro'I loved these stories. They are so well-written, with such clarity of thought and precision of language. Excellent' William Leith, Evening Standard'Remarkable. Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, children - of recent years. To read Collected Stories is to be reminded of the grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday'A body of work probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure and human wisdom' New Yorker'Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail. She can make the most ordinary things, such as couples talking, or someone watching television, bizarre, almost mythical. I felt I had encountered a most original and daring mind' Colm Toibin, Daily TelegraphLydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris and Marcel Proust.

Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories.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 moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising.Above all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary writers on the international stage.Praise for Lydia Davis: 'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' Metro'To read The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is to be reminded of the grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday'Among my most favourite writers. Read her now!' A. M. HomesLydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become - a decade after her death - the writer everyone is talking about. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis.

Famous for its daunting difficulty, Marcel Proust s In Search of Lost Time remains a thrilling yet endlessly challenging literary experience. Now, in what might be likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score, Stephane Heuet re-presents Proust for the reader who has always dreamed of reading him but was put off by the sheer magnitude of the undertaking. Newly translated by Arthur Goldhammer, this adaptation reveals the fundamental architecture of Proust s work while displaying a remarkable fidelity to his language as well as the novel s circular rhythm and themes of time, art, and the elusiveness of memory. In this first volume, Swann s Way, Heuet and Goldhammer use Proust s own discerning observations to render the narrator s childhood home, the town of Combray, like never before. Whether you are looking to brush up or sample for the first time, this graphic adaptation of In Search of Lost Time is the perfect introduction to Proust s masterpiece."

I sin fjärde novellsamling, Samarbete med fluga , spänner Lydia Davis bågen i noveller som antar alla upptänkliga former, från sociologiska studier till kortfattade dikter. Hon berör ämnen som våra fem sinnen, fjärdeklassares brevskrivningsförmåga, vad som är god smak och tropiska oväder. Begreppet sömnlöshet ger hon en ny innebörd och hon låter oss möta Kafka när han våndas i köket. Hon funderar över hur långt man bör gå för att rädda livet på en fjärilslarv, redogör för ett samlag, åker buss, resonerar kring vad som egentligen är äktenskaplig trohet och avslöjar hemligheterna bakom ett långt och lyckligt liv. Här är inte en novell den andra lik, men i dem alla utmanar Lydia Davis vår syn på världen genom att se bortom våra fördomar mot en bisarr sanning till vår förtjusning och förvåning. Lydia Davis , född 1947, är författare och känd för sina noveller. Hon har kallats en av de tysta giganterna i den amerikanska fictionens värld (Los Angeles Times) och en amerikansk novellvirtuos (Salon), en nyskapare som försöker göra om modellen för den moderna novellen (The New York Times Book Review). Davis är även översättare i franska och har översatt många klassiker till engelska, inte minst Prousts Swanns värld och Flauberts Madame Bovary. Den 22 maj 2013 tilldelades Lydia Davis Man Booker International Prize , den finaste utmärkelse en författare kan få vid sidan av Nobelpriset. "Anledningen till att Lydia Davis läsare ofta är så hängivna, på gränsen till fanatiska, är sannolikt att så många av dem verkar ha haft samma upplevelse som jag hade. Hon har en sällsynt förmåga att skriva korta texter som förändrar hela vårt sätt att se på tillvaron." Martin Gelin, DAGENS NYHETER "Ibland består Lydias noveller bara av en rad eller två. Ibland sträcker de sig över tjugofem sidor. Men de slutar alltid illa, allt mynnar ut i en gränslös hopplöshet. Och ändå lyckas Davis texter vara så inspirerande, så märkligt och motsägelsefullt livsbejakande." Andres Lokko, SVENSKA DAGBLADET "Lydia Davis ovanliga noveller är tankestimulerande, roliga och dessutom flyhänt översatta av Malin Bylund Westfelt. Vänner av intelligent novellkonst bör inte missa den här boken." Annina Rabe, SVENSKA DAGBLADET "Det som fängslar med boken är den lekfullt kameleontartade formen, språkets humoristiska udd och det envetna prövandet av människan mot omvärlden. Det är oavbrutet tankeväckande och underhållande texter som ålar genom samtiden med sällsynt glans." SMÅLANDSPOSTEN "Detta är underbar klokskap." KULTURBLOGGEN

The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore.'Mislabelled boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fictionBack in print at last, this is Lydia Davis's first - and so far only - novel. 'Extraordinary' Newsday'Brilliant' New Yorker'Breathtakingly elegant' Details'Beautifully written' Marie Claire'Astonishing' ElleLydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, most recently Can't and Won't. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

The collected stories of Lydia Davis kom ut i 2009, og vi har fått lov til å sette sammen vårt eget utvalg av 45 tekster, valgt ut fra hennes fire tekstsamlinger Break it down, Almost no memory, Samuel Johnson is indignant og Varieties of disturbance. Utvalget er ved oversetter Johanne Fronth-Nygren. Hun har også skrevet et etterord som introduserer leseren for Davis forfatterskap. Lydia Davis’ fortellinger er beskjedne, opptar ikke store plassen, smykker seg ikke med etablerte genrebetegnelser, påstår ikke å ha svar på spørsmålene de stiller, avgrenser seg til det infraordinære, det som er så hverdagslig at det stort sett passerer ubemerket under radaren. Flyktige tanker, automatiske gester, tilfeldige kommentarer, ubevisste utelatelser, mangel på tilstedeværelse. Med presisjon synliggjør hun det usynlige. Med klarhet gjengir hun det uklare. Derfor blir det lett til at man etter å ha lest Davis stadig sammenligner dagligdagse situasjoner med fortellingene hennes. Fortellingene antar arketypiske kvaliteter, dagliglivet byr på illustrasjoner av dem. Det er fristende å si at man begynner å se verden gjennom “daviske” øyne.

"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice . Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence. The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different positions, moods, and times of the day. It could be compared to some sections of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" or to Claude Monet's paintings of Rouen Cathedral. Forms of play: head butting; mounting, either at the back or at the front; trotting away by yourself; trotting together; going off bucking and prancing by yourself; resting your head and chest on the ground until they notice and trot toward you; circling each other; taking the position for head-butting and then not doing it. She moos toward the wooded hills behind her, and the sound comes back. She moos in a high falsetto before the note descends abruptly, or she moos in a falsetto that does not descend. It is a very small sound to come from such a large, dark animal.

Bob, Son of Battle, is a sheepdog so canny and careful of his flock, so deeply devoted to his master, James Moore, and so admired for his poise and wisdom by the residents of a small village in the rugged mountains of England's North Country, that young though he is, he is already known as Owd Bob. In a recent contest, Bob has proved himself a matchless sheepdog, and if he wins the trophy two more times, he'll be seen as equal to the legendary sheepdogs of yore.

Beskrivelse mangler. Se gjerne forlagets (Art Editions North) hjemmeside, der det kan finnes mer informasjon.

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The Many Voices of Lydia Davis' shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist.

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Levi-Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35 years and three additional volumes. In Volume 1, Scratches, Leiris proposes to discover a savoir vivre, a mode of living that would have a place for both his poetics and his personal morality. "I can scarcely see the literary use of speech as anything but a means of sharpening one's consciousness in order to be more-and in a better way-alive," he declares. He begins the project of uncovering memories, returning to moments and images of childhood-his father's recording machine, the letters of the alphabet coming to life-and then of his later life-Paris under the Occupation, a journey to Africa, and a troubling fear of death.

A collection of short stories by an acclaimed contemporary Greek writer, reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Jenny Offill This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora's short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the author's work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science-fiction dystopias, Mitsora animates the alternatingly dark and revelatory aspects of the human psyche, depicting a world in which her protagonists are caught between reality and myth, predestination and chance, rationality and twisted dreams. Mitsora led a generation of writers whose work articulated major transitions in the Greek literary scene, from 1970s historical and political sensibilities shaped in response to the military Junta to a contemporary focus on a fragmented, multicultural world. Her consistent experimentation with the short story form-a dominant genre in Greek prose writing since the nineteenth century-ranges from psychologically dark, surrealist work to more recent reflective and poetic writings.

A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to English-language readers. This brilliant translation of Fibrils, the third volume of his monumental autobiographical project The Rules of the Game, invites us to discover why Levi-Strauss proclaimed him "incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century." Leiris's autobiographical essay, a thirty-five-year project, is a primary document of the examined life in the twentieth century. In Fibrils, Leiris reconciles literary commitment with social/political engagement. He recounts extensive travel and anthropological work, including a 1955 visit to Mao's China. He also details his suicidal "descent into Hell," when the guilt over an extramarital affair becomes unbearable. A ruthless self-examiner, Leiris seeks to invent a new way of remembering, probe the mechanisms of memory and explore the way a life can be told.