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1	Break It Down more books like this by Lydia Davis add to wishlist This work is a collection of 34 stories which reassure the reader that reality is orderly and reasonable. However, as the characters in the stories prove by their fallibility, misunderstanding and confusion are inherent in everyday life. see all copies from $2.41! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Varieties of Disturbance: Stories more books like this by Lydia Davis add to wishlist In her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. No two of these fictions are alike, yet Davis rearranges readers' view of the world by looking beyond preconceptions to reveal a bizarre truth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The End of the Story more books like this by Lydia Davis add to wishlist In this work a happily settled woman attempts to piece together the fragments of a past, unresolved relationship. With compassion, wit and what appears to be candour, she seeks to reveal herself and her past. However, the vagueness of memory means that any past tale must be fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.11! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Swann's Way: 5 more books like this by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translator), Professor Christopher Prendergast (Editor) add to wishlist This self-contained opening volume of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST introduces the important themes of the novel: childhood, memory, love both idealized and unrequited, and the narrator's fascination with society and the aristocracy. The narrator's childhood memories include the famous madeleine scene, and the ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $38.99! \| first editions
5	Samuel Johnson is Indignant: Stories more books like this by Lydia Davis add to wishlist From one of the "true originals of contemporary American short fiction" ("San Francisco Chronicle") comes this crystalline collection of investigations into the ways in which human being perceive each other and themselves. An ALA Notable Book of the Year. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Rules of the Game: Scratches more books like this by Professor Michel Leiris, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist "Michel Leiris is the author of the most significant and arresting work of autobiography to have been written in the twentieth century."--John Sturrock "For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply."--Francis Bacon ' Scratches' is the first volume in Michel Leiris's ... see all copies from $3.24! new only from $6.39! \| first editions
7	The Rules of the Game: Scraps more books like this by Professor Michel Leiris, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist "I read with fervor the literary works of Michel Leiris and in particular the four volumes of 'Rules of the Game'...He is incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century."--Claude Livi-Strauss In this second volume of his acclaimed four-volume autobiography, 'Rules of the Game'--now available for the first time in English--Leiris comes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	Death Sentence more books like this by Professor Maurice Blanchot, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist A novel about the narrator's relationships with two troubled women. see all copies from $6.60! new only from $76.02! \| first editions
9	Almost No Memory: Stories more books like this by Lydia Davis add to wishlist An inventive, moving collection of short prose pieces about human intimacy, identity, and the "oddly tragicomic ways of human life" (Washington Post Book World). A wife who tries to cook healthy dinners for her corned beef-loving husband contemplates her marriage in "Meat, My Husband." In "Foucault and Pencil," a trouble analysand on the way home ... see all copies from $2.51! new only from $7.34! \| SVS
10	The Rendezvous more books like this by Justine Levy, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist A novel in the form of a monologue by a Parisian teenager named Louise, who sits in a café contemplating her troubled relationship with her glamorous, drug-addicted mother. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Xy: On Masculine Identity more books like this by Professor Elisabeth Badinter, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist What is a man? What is a real man? Is masculinity a biological given or an ideological construction? In this treatise, feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter seeks to define manhood at a time when sex-role distinctions have become increasingly ambiguous and age-old stereotypes about masculinity have been shattered. Drawing on biological examples, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.21! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Samuel Johnson is Indignant by Lydia Davis add to wishlist One of the "Village Voice's" 25 Favorite Books and the ALA's 2002 Notable Books, this collection of 56 stories is like nothing else. By which we mean: there is nothing else like this. Lydia Davis makes simple things complicated and complicated things simple, and it is all amazing to behold. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Tocqueville more books like this by Andre Jardin, Andre Davis (Translator), Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.93! \| first editions
14 view cover	Almost No Memory more books like this by Lydia Davis add to wishlist Lydia Davis's new collection, "Almost No Memory," is richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self caught in the paradoxical world. In 'Pastor Elaine's Newsletter, ' a harried mother studies ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Rules of the Game: Scratches: A Self-Portrait more books like this by Professor Michel Leiris, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.23! new only from $17.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Helene more books like this by Pierre Jean Jouve, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist Leonide is a young man who meets Helene deSannis in Northern Italy. A married contessa, Helene spends much of her time alone because her husband is an officer with the army. She takes Leonide as her lover, and he, in turn, becomes obsessed with her. Leonide then meets the young Pauliet, a nephew of Helene and her husband, who, although dying, ... see all copies from $4.04! new only from $15.78! \| first editions
17 view cover	L'Arret de Mort=: Death Sentence by Professor Maurice Blanchot, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist A novel about the narrator's relationships with two troubled women. see all copies from $6.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Solitude of Compassion more books like this by Jean Giono, Edward Ford (Translator), Lydia Davis (Foreword by) add to wishlist Introduced by Henry Miller, these 20 stories, which were first published in 1932, are set in the Provence countryside, and reveal the dark side of peasant life. see all copies from $9.16! new only from $9.16!
19 view cover	The Desert World more books like this by Pierre Jean Jouve, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist The story of a love triangle consisting of a gay man, an asexual poet, and a woman who loves them both. These characters strive to find fulfillment in their sexuality and in their spiritual natures. see all copies from $7.03! new only from $27.35!
20	African trio more books like this by Georges Simenon, Stuart Gilbert, Paul Auster, Lydia Davis add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions
21 view cover	Gaze of Orpheus: And Other Literary Essays more books like this by Professor Maurice Blanchot, P Adams Sitney (Photographer), Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist Writing about The Gaze of Orpheus, Geoffrey Hartman suggested that 'When we come to write the history of criticism for the 1940 to 1980 period, it will be found that Blanchot, together with Sartre, made French 'discourse' possible, both in its relentlessness and its acuity..This selection.is exemplary for its clearly translated and well-chosen ... see all copies from $9.75! new only from $13.05! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	When the Time Comes more books like this by Professor Maurice Blanchot, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist In this re-issue of Lydia Davis' celebrated translation of Blanchot's classic mysterious "tale" (recit), Au Moment Voulu, the story hovers on the edge of the occult. Ostensibly it chronicles the troubled relations between the narrator -- a very ill man -- and the two women whose lives he invades. As in all of Blanchot's intensely subjective ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $54.95! \| first editions
23 view cover	Vagadu: The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: II by Pierre Jean Jouve, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist In the second volume of Jouve's novel (this one published originally in 1931), Catherine explores her early childhood through psychoanalysis, recovers memories of sexual abuse, gradually moves away from her tendency toward masochism, and achieves a new degree of self-knowledge. see all copies from $12.50! new only from $29.28!
24 view cover	Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan more books like this by Emmanuel Hocquard, Ms. Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.22! new only from $10.92!
25	Life/Situations more books like this by Jean Paul Sarte, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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