Night train / A.L. Snijders ; translated from the Dutch with an introduction by Lydia Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snijders, A. L., author.

Contributor:

Davis, Lydia, 1947- translator, writer of introduction.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1513.

A New Directions paperback ; 1513

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

Dutch

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

150 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021.

Summary:

"Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. 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. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extolls 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 day-book 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Very short stories"--Spine.

Contains:

Snijders, A. L. Story (3)

Snijders, A. L. Grandson.

Snijders, A. L. Grasses and trees.

Snijders, A. L. Jaartallen/Years.

Snijders, A. L. Old prick.

Snijders, A. L. Because his wife.

Snijders, A. L. Fox.

Snijders, A. L. Seagulls.

Snijders, A. L. Ox.

Snijders, A. L. Passion.

ISBN:

9780811228565

0811228568

OCLC:

1273423040