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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0241554659
ISBN-13 9780241554654
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 2nd, 2021
Print length 592 Pages
Weight 564 grams
Dimensions 13.90 x 20.60 x 4.50 cms
Ksh 3,600.00
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Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. 'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust' Ali SmithLydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction writing for the first time in 2019 with Essays. Now, she continues the project with Essays Two, focusing on the art of translation, the learning of foreign languages through reading, and her experience of translating, amongst others, Flaubert and Proust, about whom she writes with an unmatched understanding of the nuances of their styles. Every essay in this book is a revelation.

Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.

''Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her'' Hanif Kureishi

''A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust'' Ali Smith

Lydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction writing for the first time in 2019 with Essays. Now, she continues the project with Essays Two, focusing on the art of translation, the learning of foreign languages through reading, and her experience of translating, amongst others, Flaubert and Proust, about whom she writes with an unmatched understanding of the nuances of their styles.

Every essay in this book is a revelation.


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