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Peter Handke
“That doesn’t mean I would enjoy reading a washing machine how-to manual in French or German and get the same enjoyment. I read two different Peter Handke books in German, just because I wanted to.”
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Lydia Davis
Published podcast speaker
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Joseph Cornell
“I like Joseph Cornell, and I like what he was doing and why, but I don’t do collages, and I never have.”
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What Lydia said.
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I think of a poem as more lyrical, and I think that’s a test that I can depend on to some extent.
“I think of a poem as more lyrical, and I think that’s a test that I can depend on to some extent.”
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- Lydia Davis
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- Conversations with Tyler
02 / evaluation
I’d hesitate there to blame the translator because I think, usually, it is a time constraint.
“I’d hesitate there to blame the translator because I think, usually, it is a time constraint.”
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- Lydia Davis
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- Conversations with Tyler
03 / evaluation
I think the novel I wrote, the one novel, The End of the Story, was meant to give the impression of fragmentation because the narrator was trying to remember incidents, so the memories come back in fragments.
“I think the novel I wrote, the one novel, The End of the Story, was meant to give the impression of fragmentation because the narrator was trying to remember incidents, so the memories come back in fragments.”
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- Lydia Davis
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
04 / evaluation
I had a problem a long time ago trying to read Ulysses by Joyce, and started it twice, and finally read it when I lived in Ireland, which made it much easier because I had his context. That too — I suppose because it had different chapters, each of which approached the ongoing story in a very different way — I found that possible too.
“I had a problem a long time ago trying to read Ulysses by Joyce, and started it twice, and finally read it when I lived in Ireland, which made it much easier because I had his context. That too — I suppose because it had different chapters, each of which approached the ongoing story in a very different way — I found that possible too.”
- Speaker
- Lydia Davis
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- Conversations with Tyler