有经验的读者一定不难看出,来自美国的布克国际奖得主莉迪亚·戴维斯更像是一位欧洲小说家。如果美国文学指的是马克·吐温、海明威、菲茨杰拉德、福克纳……或者是戴维斯的前夫畅销小说家保罗·奥斯特的话,确切地说,戴维斯更像一位德语小说家,比如卡夫卡,比如耶利内克、赫塔·米勒,智性的、反故事的、高密度的。她的很多“黑童话”似的短制则酷似安吉拉·卡特,冷峻的戏剧化叙事又使人想到贝克特、哈罗德·品 An experienced reader must see that Lydia Davis, a Booker international award winner from the United States, is more of a European novelist. If American literature refers to Mark Twain, Hemingway, FitzGerald, Faulkner ... or Davis’s ex-husband best-selling novelist Paul Auster, Davis is more like A German novelist, such as Kafka, such as Jelinek, Geta Miller, intellectual, anti-story, high-density. Her many “black fairy tale” resembles the short form of Angela Carter, the solemn dramatic narrative reminiscent of Beckett, Harold Commodities