Lydia Davis Libros Populares
Lydia Davis Biografía y Hechos
Lydia Davis (Northampton, Massachusetts; 15 de julio de 1947) es una escritora estadounidense de relatos cortos, cuentos, novelas y ensayos, además de ser traductora.[1][2] Biografía Infancia y educación Lydia Davis nació en Northampton, Massachusetts, el 15 de julio de 1947.[3] Es hija de Robert Gorham Davis, un crítico y profesor de inglés, y de Hope Hale Davis, una escritora de cuentos y maestra.[4] Davis en su infancia inicialmente: «Estudió música (primero piano, y luego violín), cosa que fue su primera pasión».[5] Años más tarde, al convertirse en escritora Davis comentó: «Probablemente siempre estuve destinada a ser escritora, aunque esa no fuera mi primera pasión. Creo que siempre debí haber querido escribir en alguna parte de mí o probablemente nunca lo hubiera hecho».[5] Estudió en la Barnard College, y por aquel entonces escribía principalmente poesía.[5] En 1974, Davis se casó con el también escritor Paul Auster, con quien tuvo un hijo llamado Daniel Auster.[5] Auster y Davis se divorciarían más tarde; tras lo cual, años más tarde Davis volvería a casarse, esta vez con el artista Alan Cote, con quien tuvo otro hijo: Theo Cote.[6] En la actualidad es profesora de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Albany; además de haber trabajado en la Universidad de Nueva York en 2012.[6] Carrera Davis ha publicado seis colecciones de ficción: The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976); Break It Down (1986) (finalista del Premio PEN/Hemingway); Varieties of Disturbance (finalista del Premio Nacional del Libro en 2007); y Can't and Won't (2013). En 2009 se publicaron sus Cuentos completos, libro el cual contiene toda su ficción hasta el año 2008.[7][8] Davis ha traducido al inglés a escritores franceses tales como Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Michel Leiris, Pierre Jean Jouve, entre otros; así como al escritor holandés A.L. Snijders.[3] Influencia Davis ha sido descrita como: «La maestra de una literatura merecedora de su propia creación».[9] Algunas de sus «historias» son solo de una o de dos oraciones. Davis ha comparado estos trabajos con un rascacielos, en el sentido de que están rodeados por una imponente extensión blanca (es decir, el cielo).[5] Michael LaPointe, escritor en Los Angeles Review of Books, llegó a decir que: «Lydia Davis no inventó los microrrelatos; ella es, hasta ahora, su representante contemporánea más eminente».[1] Kassia Boddy en la Columbia Companion to the 21st Century Short Story comentó que: «Las parábolas de Davis son más exitosas cuando examinan los problemas de comunicación entre hombres y mujeres, y las estrategias que cada uno usa para interpretar las palabras y acciones del otro». De los autores norteamericanos contemporáneos, solo Davis, junto con Stuart Dybek y Alice Fulton, comparten la distinción de aparecer en los libros The Best American Short Stories y The Best American Poetry. En octubre de 2003, Davis recibió una Beca MacArthur.[10] En 2013 fue la ganadora del Premio Internacional Booker y recibió distinciones de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras, de la Sociedad Filolexiana y de la Universidad de Columbia. Desde el 2005 es miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias. Bibiliografía Novelas 1995: The End of the Story Cuentos 1976: The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories 1985: Story and Others Stories 1986: Break It Down 1997: Almost No Memory 2002: Samuel Johnson Is Indignant 2007: Varieties of Disturbance 2009: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 2013: Can't and Won't Ensayos 2019: Essays 2019: Essays Ones Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Lydia Davis. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Lydia Davis
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The Mars Room
Rachel KushnerSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers – a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love,...
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In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Marcel Proust & The griffin classics"'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose t...
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Night Train
A L Snijders & Lydia DavisBrevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fiction Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost sh...
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A Guest at the Feast
Colm TóibínA Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy...
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The View from Castle Rock
Alice MunroWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined v...
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Armand V
Dag Solstad & Steven T Murray‘Solstad doesn’t write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, that’s my idea…the drama exists in his voice’ Lydia DavisArmand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of t...
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The Soloist
Steve LopezWhen Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a twostring violin on Los Angeles's skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years ago, Ayers ...
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Things to Make and Break
May-Lan TanSHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'Quite dazzling.' TLS'Plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic' GuardianShadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers ...
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A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin & Stephen EmersonOne of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary shortstory ...
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Nana
Émile Zola & George HoldenBorn to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as ...
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Too Much Happiness
Alice MunroWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThese are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friend...
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Slip
Amelia LoulliOne in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry not, at least, until now.'Painful, brave and...
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Reborn
Susan Sontag'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself'Intimate, vulnerable and unsparing, Reborn bears witness to the evolution of...
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A Short History of Hairdressing (Storycuts)
Julian BarnesGregory ponders as he sits in the barber's chair at various stages of his life. His youthful preoccupation with the adult world gives way to the brash chippiness of the university ...
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Medusa’s Ankles
A S ByattA luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prizewinning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by David MitchellByatt takes her reader...
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Can't and Won't
Lydia DavisCan'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 universa...
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia DavisThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the worldrenowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013'What stories. ...
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia DavisThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of...
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Lydia Davis
Lydia DavisDie Schriftstellerin Lydia Davis beschäftigt sich in ihren Kurzgeschichten mit Phänomenen des Alltags. In ihrem Prosatext »Zwei ehemalige Studenten« wird das Studium an einer Unive...
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The Dog
Jack LivingsSet in the shifting landscape of contemporary China, Jack Living's debut story collection, The Dog, explodes the country's cultural and social fault lines.In this riveting, richly ...
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Many Voices of Lydia Davis
Jonathan EvansThe first indepth analysis of Lydia Daviss translations and writingThe Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Ly...
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Open Secrets
Alice MunroWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remark...
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Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
Marilyn ChinMoonie and Mei Ling are looked after by their grandmother, an indomitable matriarch, ruthless manager of 'The Double Happiness' restaurant and fount of endless titbits of Chinese m...
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Unquiet
Linn Ullmann'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSKHe is a renowned Swedish filmmaker...
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Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret AtwoodThe new collection from the legendary Atwood is led by the story of a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love a...
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice MunroWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Al...
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The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
Kasia BoddyThe last 50 years have proved a particularly lively period in the history of the short story form. This new collection gives a full picture of the richness and diversity of this mo...
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In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Marcel Proust & Knowledge House"'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose t...
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A Vision of the World
John CheeverSelected and Introduced by BookerPrize winner Julian Barnes'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around t...
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Guestbook
Leanne Shapton'Shapton has created a mystical territory a performance, an exhibition, a guestbook in which I felt the ghost within myself; the thing that will outlive me. A fearless and...
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Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice MunroWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICKPreviously published as 'The Beggar Maid', Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads ...
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The Progress of Love
Alice MunroTHE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThese dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined in ...
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The Rich House
Stella GibbonsSet on the eve of World War II in a resort on the east coast of England, The Rich House follows the love affairs of six young people and their intertwined adorations. Encircling th...
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Hurricanes in Perfect Power
Varios Artistas & Candice BrathwaiteA stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect...
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Stories
Susan Sontag'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial TimesThe co...
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T Singer
Dag Solstad & Tiina NunnallyThe new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style.‘A kind ...
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The King Is Always Above the People
Daniel AlarcónLonglisted for the National Book Award for FictionAn unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40, and one of the best ...
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Untouchable: Robert De Niro
Andy DouganAndy Dougan draws on firsthand interviews with some of De Niro's closest friends and colleagues. The result is a revealing and sometimes startling account of an intensely priva...
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Winter Journal
Paul Auster'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they a...
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On Saturdays (Storycuts)
Su Tong & Howard GoldblattYou don't expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi's visit...
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In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Marcel Proust & RMB"'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose t...
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American Housewife
Helen EllisMeet the women of American Housewife… They smoke their eyes and paint their lips. They channel Beyoncé while doing household chores. They drown their sorrows with Chanel No....
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Man from the South (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlMan from the South is a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In Man from the South, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells...
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Dolores
Lauren Aimee CurtisDolores is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent atmosphere that resonates beyond its brevity Megan Hun...
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Amy HempelThe Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired b...
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The Good Book
Andrew BlaunerThirtytwo prominent writers share the Bible passages most meaningful to them in this “Sunday School class you’ve been waiting for” (Garrison Keillor).The Good Book, with an introdu...
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The Bed Moved
Rebecca SchiffA New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cashstrapped pot grower to a 'Clothing Optional Resort' in California. A nerdy high schooler has her first sexual experience at ...
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How We Are Hungry
Dave EggersHow We Are Hungry is a collection of Dave Eggers's short stories that twist and inspire the imagination Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently tha...
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Corpus
Susan IrvineIn this dazzling collection, Susan Irvine takes the reader into the creative mind. From Concept I, in which an artist presents her son as a work of art for the Turner Prize, to a H...
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Royal Jelly (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlRoyal Jelly is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail.In Royal Jelly, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinis...