标题: 莉迪亚-戴维斯 作家和翻译家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-14 00:36 标题: 莉迪亚-戴维斯 作家和翻译家 Lydia Davis
Writer and Translator | Class of 2003
Crafting witty, experimental prose that celebrates the complexity of life’s most ordinary moments and the nuances of plain, precise language.
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Title
Writer and Translator
Affiliation
State University of New York at Albany
Location
Albany, New York
Age
56 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, Translation
Published October 5, 2003
ABOUT LYDIA'S WORK
Lydia Davis is a prose stylist of incisive wit. She has authored three collections of stories and a novel and has translated from the French numerous works by such figures as Maurice Blanchot and Marcel Proust. Her most recent book, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, consists of fifty-seven literary miniatures, each exemplifying her economical renderings of our most ordinary thoughts and moments. For Davis, restraint represents a platform for taking risks; she dares readers to puzzle over the highly experimental choices in form she employs – a letter of complaint to a funeral parlor, a hymn transcribed as a handwriting exercise, an interview regarding jury duty, and a single, fragmentary clause. Eschewing the conventions of plot, character, and drama, Davis shows how language itself can entertain, how all that what one word says, and leaves unsaid, can hold a reader’s interest. By enlarging both experiences and the nuances of plain language, Davis grants readers a glimpse of life’s previously invisible details, revealing new sources of philosophical insight and beauty.
BIOGRAPHY
Lydia Davis received a B.A. (1970) from Barnard College. She was an associate professor of literature at Bard College (1986–2001) and is currently a writer-in-residence and an associate professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany. Her works of fiction include Break It Down (1986), The End of the Story (1995), Almost No Memory (1997), and Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (2001).
个人简历
莉迪亚-戴维斯获得了巴纳德学院的文学学士学位（1970年）。她曾在巴德学院担任文学副教授（1986-2001），目前是纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校的驻校作家和英语副教授。她的小说作品包括Break It Down（1986）、The End of the Story（1995）、Almost No Memory（1997）和Samuel Johnson Is Indignant（2001）。
