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Night train / A.L. Snijders ; translated from the Dutch with an introduction by Lydia Davis.
Van Pelt Library PT5881.29.N53 A6 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snijders, A. L., author.
- 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
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