Editorial Picador USA
Fecha de edición marzo 2015 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781250062437
304 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of Bloomington reads, Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before. Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates, a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends.
What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. With bracing candor and sly humor, Davis examines the quotidian and reveals all that is mysterious, foreign, alienating, and pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
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