The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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Christopher Tayler enjoys short pieces from an American original.







Paul Klee famously thought of drawing as "taking a line for a walk". Lydia Davis, an American short-story writer, or writer of short texts ambiguously situated between fiction, jeux d'esprit, prose poetry and philosophy, seems to have a similar approach to what she does. Sometimes she takes a word for a walk, as in "Examples of Remember", which reads:





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