person / uses
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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- 1
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- 2
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person / likes
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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01 / preference
I like Joseph Cornell, and I like what he was doing and why, but I don’t do collages, and I never have.
“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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- Lydia Davis
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
02 / preference
The fact is that I, as a matter of principle, did not read any secondary material before I started translating Proust, and even now would not want to read a great deal of it.
“The fact is that I, as a matter of principle, did not read any secondary material before I started translating Proust, and even now would not want to read a great deal of it.”
- Speaker
- Lydia Davis
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
03 / preference
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.
“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.”
- Speaker
- Lydia Davis
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
04 / preference
I really just love foreign languages, which may sound a little dumb because it’s such a blanket statement, but even here at home, I find myself wanting to just break into German or French just for a second.
“I really just love foreign languages, which may sound a little dumb because it’s such a blanket statement, but even here at home, I find myself wanting to just break into German or French just for a second.”
- Speaker
- Lydia Davis
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler