Not due out until September but I can't wait to get my hands on this. Lydia Davis. (contented sigh) Translator extraordinaire made Proust even more Proust for me. Writes the most elegant, gorgeous short stories imaginable. What will her translation of passages such as this read like?
"Before she married, she thought she was in love; but the happiness that should have resulted from that love, somehow had not come. It seemed to her that she must have made a mistake, have misunderstood in some way or another. And Emma tried hard to discover what, precisely, it was in life that was denoted by the words 'joy, passion, intoxication', which had always looked so fine to her in books."I can see a bunch of us reading Madame Bovary together in the fall. Can you?
