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Lydia Davis. Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories.(Brief Article)
From: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Date: 20020622
Author:Strecker, Trey
Lydia Davis. Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories. McSweeney's, 2001. 201 pp. $17.00.
In her latest collection, the author of Break It Down (1986) and Almost No Memory (1997) delivers fifty-six scintillating stories that showcase her almost tactile love of language in sentences reminiscent of Baudelaire's prose poems or Kafka's fables. If these diverse tales share a subject, it is the difficulty of communication and the modern impulse to objectify other individuals. Davis's stories--some as brief as a single elliptical sentence--do not depend upon verbal pyrotechnics; rather, ...
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