Lydia Davis

«Una obra única en la literatura americana que será considerada dentro de un tiempo como una de las mayores y más insólitas contribuciones a las letras norteamericanas», , JAMES WOODThe New Yorker

Lydia Davis es un prodigio, de ahí su fama y prestigio en EEUU. El libro tiene un gran sentido del humor.En este libro Lydia Davis repasa temas como: amigos aburridos, Marie Curie, los vecinos, el matrimonio, la ética, los tanatorios, los hijos, la guerra, los diccionarios, en fin, abarca un poco de todo con un hilo conductor: la belleza del lenguaje al servicio de una idea que todos hemos sentido de forma incoada, pero que quizás nunca hemos podido conseguir cuajar.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The New York Times - Los Angeles Times - The Boston Globe " 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 storiesmay appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extractedfrom 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. Davis writes with bracing candor and slyhumor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patternsof daily life.

Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories.With titles like A Story of Stolen Salamis, The Problem of the Vacuum Cleaner, Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer and Can't and Won't, the stories in this new collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising.Above all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary writers on the international stage.

Una obra poderosa y enigmática que profundiza en la capacidad redentora de la creación y que nos empuja a adentrarnos en los oscuros laberintos del amor pasional. "El final de la historia

A collection of short fiction that is written by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.

Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. This title is the winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2013. Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories. With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in this new collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising. Above all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary writers on the international stage. Praise for Lydia Davis: "What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read". (Metro). "To read The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is to be reminded of the grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday 'Among my most favourite writers. Read her now!". (A. M. Homes). Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

This is the first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013. 'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore.' Mislabelled boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction. Back in print at last, this is Lydia Davis' first - and so far only - novel. "Extraordinary". (Newsday). "Brilliant". (New Yorker). "Breathtakingly elegant". (Details). "Beautifully written". (Marie Claire). "Astonishing". (Elle). Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, most recently Can't and Won't. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

La narradora de esta historia es una traductora y académica de mediana edad que intenta escribir una novela (que es esta novela) sobre una relación pasional y neurótica que tuvo años atrás con un hombre mas joven que ella. Tomando el desamor como si fuera una autopsia por realizar, la narradora nos conduce por sus recuerdos y reflexiones, dispuestos de forma fragmentaria y desordenada y plagados de descripciones que rayan la obsesion clinica. Asi, asistimos a una busqueda de la protagonista por determinar que es lo que sabe sobre si misma y que es lo que realmente ocurrio, pero no tardaremos en empezar a sospechar, junto a ella, que ningun recuerdo sale intacto de la equivocidad de la memoria, y que cualquier relato del pasado termina por convertirse en ficcion.

La reconocida escritora estadounidense cuenta que la selección la hizo ella misma y terminó proponiendo dos tomos que abarquen las dos actividades a las que dedicó gran parte de su vida: la escritura y la traduccion. Mientras que en este primer tomo los textos se enfocan en la lectura y la escritura, deteniendose en la obra de diversos escritores y poetas como Lucia Berlin, David Foster Wallace, Anselm Hollo, Pound, Lorine Niedecker hasta Hemingway, Kafka, Borges, entre otros, el segundo tomo se concentra mas en la experiencia de traducir y de leer en otras lenguas. La seleccion abarca textos desde fines de los setenta hasta el año 2016.

“Ni puedo ni quiero es el libro de relatos más revolucionario escrito por un escritor norteamericano en los últimos 25 años”. The Boston Globe Lydia Davis, una de las cuentistas contemporáneas más

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