Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories - Hardcover

Davis, Lydia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0970335598 ISBN 13: 9780970335593

Publisher: McSweeney's, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lydia Davis is the author of the story collection ALMOST NO MEMORY and BREAK IT DOWN, and the novel THE END OF THE STORY. Her stories have been translated into French, German, and Spanish and widely published in literary magazines, among them The New Yorker, McSweeney's, City Lights Review, Conjunctions, Grand Street, Harper's and The Paris Review. She is a noted translator from the French of works by Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Pierre Jean Jouve, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others. Her awards include the Guggenheim, the Lannan Foundation Award, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award and a Chevalier from the French government. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT (Chapter One)Boring Friends

We know only four boring people. The rest of our friends we find very interesting. However, most of the friends we find interesting find us boring: the most interesting find us the most boring. The few who are somewhere in the middle, with whom there is reciprocal interest, we distrust: at any moment, we feel, they may become too interesting for us, or we too interesting for them.

SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT Copyright © 1976, 1981, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Lydia Davis.

About this edition

• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0970335598
• ISBN 13: 9780970335593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 201