Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories - Softcover

Davis, Lydia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312420560 ISBN 13: 9780312420567

Verlag: Macmillan USA, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction."

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SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT (Chapter One)Boring Friends

We know only four boring people. The rest of our friends we find very interesting. However, most of the friends we find interesting find us boring: the most interesting find us the most boring. The few who are somewhere in the middle, with whom there is reciprocal interest, we distrust: at any moment, we feel, they may become too interesting for us, or we too interesting for them.

SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT Copyright © 1976, 1981, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Lydia Davis.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Macmillan USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312420560
• ISBN 13: 9780312420567
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
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