Almost no memory
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
48,250 words, Guess
Page Count
193 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1008145M
- ISBN-100374102813
- OCLC Control Number35814870
- Library of Congress Control Number96048091
- LibraryThing299339
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- Goodreads1233040
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3554.A9356 A79 1997
Description
Lydia Davis's new collection, Almost No Memory, is a richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self caught in the paradoxical world. In "Pastor Elaine's Newsletter," a harried mother studies a Bible passage; in "Foucault and Pencil," a troubled analysand on her way home from a session attempts to distract herself with a difficult French text; in "Glenn Gould," a former pianist tries to justify her dependence on a certain television show. The stories in Almost No Memory reveal an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relations, as Davis, in a spare but resonant prose all her own, explores the limits of identity, of logic, and of the known and the knowable.
Other Editions
- Almost no memory
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