Description |
x, 512 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
Contents |
Preface -- The practice of writing. A beloved duck gets cooked: forms and influences I -- Commentary on one very short story ("In a house beseiged") -- From raw material to finished work: Forms and influences II -- A note on the word Gubernatorial -- Visual artists: Joan Mitchell. Joan Mitchell and Les Bluets -- Writers. John Ashbery's translation of Rimbau's Illuminations -- Young Pynchon -- The story is the thing: Lucia Berlin's A manual for cleaning women -- A close look at two books by Rae Armantrout -- Small but perfectly formed: Five favourite short stories -- Visual artists: Joseph Cornell. The impetus was delight: A response by analogy to the work of Joseph Cornell -- The practise of writing (2). Sources, revision, order and endings: Forms and influences III -- Revising one sentence -- Found material, syntax, brevity, and the beauty of awkward prose: Forms and influence IV -- Fragmentary or unfinished: Barthes, Joubert, Holderlin, Mallarme, Flaubert -- Thirty recommendations for good writing habits -- Visual artists: Alan Cote. Energy in color: Alan Cote's recent paintings -- Writers (2). "Emmy Moore's journal" by Jane Bowles -- Osama Alomar's very short tales in Fullblood Arabian -- Haunting the flea market: Roger Lewinter's The Attraction of Things -- Red mittens: Anselm Hollo's translation from the Cheremiss -- In search of difficult Edward Dahlberg -- Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- Visual artists: Early tourist photographs. Dutch scenes: A portfolio of early twentieth-century tourist photographs -- Writers (3). The problem of plot summary in Blanchot's fiction -- Stendhal's alter ego: The life of Henry Brulard -- Maurice Blanchot absent -- A farewell to Michel Butor -- Michel Leiris's Fibrils, Volume 3 of The rules of the game -- The bible, memory, and the passage of time. As I was reading -- Meeting Abraham Lincoln -- "Paring off the amphibologisms": Jesus recovered by the Jesus seminar -- A reading of the Shepherd's Psalm -- Remember the Van Wagenens |
Summary |
"The visionary, fearless Lydia Davis presents a dazzling collection of essays on reading and writing, exploring the full scope of possibility within existing forms of literature and considering how we might challenge and reinvent these forms."--Book jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Reading
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Writing
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Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Essays.
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ISBN |
9780241371473 |
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0241371473 |
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