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Interview Details
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An Interview with Lydia Davis - Believer Magazine
Publish Date
January 1, 2008
Interviewees
Lydia Davis
Interviewers
Sarah Manguso
Publisher
Believer Magazine
Topics
Autistic narrators in fiction
Definition of a story
Influence of Samuel Beckett
narrative techniques
Translation work
writing style
People Mentioned
Ben Marcus
Christopher Middleton
Diane Williams
Francis Ponge
Geoff Bouvier
Henri Michaux
Jane Bowles
Jim Heynen
Joycean
Laurence Sterne
Léon-Paul Fargue
Madame Bovary
Martha Ronk
Maurice Blanchot
Michel Leiris
Peter Altenberg
Peter Cherches
Phyllis Koestenbaum
Pierre Jean Jouve
Proust
Rae Armantrout
Robert Walser
Russell Edson
Samuel Beckett
Sarah Manguso
Works Mentioned
Almost No Memory
Break It Down
Du côté de chez Swann
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Swann’s Way
The End of the Story
Varieties of Disturbance
We Miss You
Places Mentioned
Austria
French
SUNY Albany
Upstate New York
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