Lindsay Duguid

Detachment Theory

Can't and Won't

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The distinguished public profile of Lydia Davis can be easily traced. She is the author of one novel and five volumes of short stories, and is the translator of Proust, Flaubert, Sartre, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Leiris. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and has won the Man Booker International Prize. 

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