Bibliograph

Night train, A.L. Snijders ; translated from the Dutch with an introduction by Lydia Davis

Type

Label

Night train, A.L. Snijders ; translated from the Dutch with an introduction by Lydia Davis

Language

eng

Illustrations

facsimiles

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Night train

Oclc number

1273423040

Responsibility statement

A.L. Snijders ; translated from the Dutch with an introduction by Lydia Davis

Series statement

A New Directions paperback, 1513

Summary

"Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extolls Snijders's "straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty and his thoughtfulness." Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch, the stories gathered here-humorous, or bizarre, or comfortingly homely-are something like day-book entries, novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated from life, but-inhabiting the borderland between fiction and reality-might best be described as autobiographical mini-fables"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification