PROUST, BLANCHOT AND A WOMAN IN RED, by Lydia Davis

Sylph Editions, 2012, First edition, 48 pp., 6" X 9 1/2", Softcover with belly band

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Following her acclaimed translation of Swann’s Way, Lydia Davis offers a partial alphabet of Proust translation problems – and their solutions. She muses on the near-impossibility of summarizing works by Maurice Blanchot, and ends with a group of short narratives that explore the space between dream and waking reality. This cahier is a wondrous adventure into the perils and delights of translating, of reading–and of dreaming.