Night Train Snijders A. L.
Night Train Snijders A. L. Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of…
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Night Train Snijders A. L.
Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity.
She also extols Snijders's "straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty and his thoughtfulness."Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch, the stories gathered here--humorous, or bizarre, or comfortingly homely--are something like daybook entries, novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated from life, but--inhabiting the borderland between fiction and reality--might best be described as autobiographical mini-fables.This morning at 11:30, in the full sun,