A review by ominousevent
Almost No Memory: Stories by Lydia Davis
2.0
In this second volume of Davis' collected stories, there are several which are more outward-looking and anchored in the actual concrete details of the world. The stories in which other characters appear and have an effect on what happens, or the setting is treated as interesting, are the best to read, although there is still a deadness and a repetitiveness to most of them which makes the overall task of reading feel like a chore.
And we still have plenty of the circular, obsessive, repetitive ruminations of narrators who are struck nearly blind by their inability to find anything outside their own thoughts, and thoughts about their thoughts, and thoughts about their thoughts about their thoughts, and endless run-on-sentences without a contraction or two-syllable word to be seen, interesting. Such myopia leaves the reader without anything interesting to look at at all.
And we still have plenty of the circular, obsessive, repetitive ruminations of narrators who are struck nearly blind by their inability to find anything outside their own thoughts, and thoughts about their thoughts, and thoughts about their thoughts about their thoughts, and endless run-on-sentences without a contraction or two-syllable word to be seen, interesting. Such myopia leaves the reader without anything interesting to look at at all.