Almost No Memory Stories
“Almost No Memory Stories” by Lydia Davis is a collection published by Ecco Press in 1998, featuring 193 pages of inventive short fiction. This edition presents a series of playful philosophical investigations and intricate domestic disputes, showcasing Davis’s unique ability to portray the contemplative self within a paradoxical world.
Readers will find a diverse array of narratives, including “Pastor Elaine’s Newsletter,” where a mother grapples with a Bible passage, and “Foucault and Pencil,” which follows an analyst distracted by a challenging French text. The stories delve into themes of identity and human relations, revealing an empathic understanding through Davis’s spare yet resonant prose. This collection invites exploration of the limits of logic and the known, making it a thought-provoking addition to the genre of short stories.
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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 a Bible passage; in ‘Foucault and Pencil, ‘ a troubled analyst on her way home from a session attempts to distract herself with a difficult French text; in ‘Glenn Gould, ‘ a former pianist tries to justify her dependence on a certain television show. The stories in “Almost No Memory” reveal an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relations, as Davis, in a spare but resonant prose all her own, explores the limits of identity, of logic, and of the known and the knowable.
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