{"product_id":"9780374148867","title":"Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavis, Lydia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a selection of her essays for the first time in 2019 with\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEssays One\u003c\/i\u003e. Now she continues her nonfiction project with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssays Two\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition collects, for the first time, Davis’s essays and talks on the art of translation; the experience of translating Proust, Flaubert, and Michel Leiris; learning a foreign language through reading; and an extended immersion in the city of Arles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavis, the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award, showcases her sharp literary mind and invaluable insight in this new collection of her nonfiction works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47775693537513,"sku":"9780374148867","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/files\/9780374148867_8ed3f.jpg?v=1726766076","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/9780374148867","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}