There’s something special in the way these stories sucker-punch you too. And Can’t and Won’t does not in any way eclipse what has happened previously but there’s some new, fresh sadness this time around. Okay, so there are several volumes before this and work with translations, a novel too. But whether these even are stories – and I really don’t think that matters – what matters is that Davis has done the work. And that would be fair enough, it’s clear Davis spends some of her time when writing wrestling with that very notion. You might spend some of your time reading her work wrestling with the notion of what a story is.
Her stories are postcards, single sentences, prose-poems, lists, letters, translated notes, found dialogues, overheard conversations, remembered dreams – they might be anything but stories. In her first collection in over a decade Lydia Davis continues on with her unique approach to the short story.
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