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Lydia Davis brings her concision and ironic sensibilities to a new translation of Madame Bovary

Reviewed by Lucina Schell, Editor As a great admirer of Lydia Davis’ short fictions, I am very enthused to see her tackle new translations of classic texts from the French by Proust and Flaubert. The recent Man Booker Prize winner, acclaimed for her concision and humor—many of her “short stories” are only one sentence long—possesses […]